Quotes About Authenticity

Someone at Tidal came to our show in New York in 2016, and I guess he was expecting, like, K-Pop. But he was surprised: he saw we were doing R&B and hip hop authentically.

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

Hopefully people see me as a great person, first of all.

I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes.

Hopefully, it gets to a point where, down the line, people don't have to come out.

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

British music lovers in general are dreadfully concerned about being cool, but I'm quite happy to grab uncool by the horns at any opportunity.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.