Quotes About Authenticity

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

The Miz came in as a way to say exactly what I was feeling and not have any repercussions for it because it was a character I was playing.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake.

There is an emotional aspect to live players that, no matter how good the samples are, you cannot replicate.

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.

As a fan of music, there's nothing I hate more than hearing an artist write a new album off the back of a successful record. Usually they've rushed it, or they've gone into the studio with all the big guns to replicate what they'd just created.

I don't care if someone makes fun of me, but if someone calls me a mean person or something, I reply. If you don't like me in makeup, that's OK. But I would like people to like me as a person.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

I'm not a war reporter.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?