Quotes About Authenticity

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

When it comes to Baltimore I want to say that it's actually a lot worse than what you see in 'The Wire.'

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

What I view as worship now is certainly a little different than how I used to view worship. I don't see it as a verse in a chorus, on a big screen with words, like I used to. It's just trying to be as real as possible in front of an audience.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.