Quotes About Authenticity

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.

We are not a banana republic.

I can be a bit weird, cross when I'm cross, tired when I'm tired, and hungry when I'm hungry.

If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.

When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to really encounter God... bring healing.

We often want the world to think we are strong and everything is perfect, when the reality is sometimes we are hurting and need a shoulder to cry on or just compassion or empathy.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

It's really hard for me to beat around the bush or lie, so sometimes the truth hurts.

The truth hurts, and not everyone can deal with it. Every player is different, but they are all entitled to the truth. It is up to them if they can handle it or not.

Sometimes if I feel the songs are too much, it hurts, but then I open my eyes: people are singing along or crying, and the 7-year-old in me is like, 'Yeahhh.'

My thing is about being authentic and when people say I'm not being authentic, it hurts my feelings.