Quotes About Authenticity

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

I don't have time to worry about looking cool.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit.

The reality is that most of the time, the more bizarre the trend, the more bogus the results.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.