Quotes About Authenticity

You can't run away from yourself !!

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love the sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

trees should be trees

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.

Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Don't come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There's nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, "Wow, that's a neat insight!" You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn't try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He's looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.

Meter, melody, and everything else that relates to the construction of a song are secondary. All that is necessary is to have something to say and to say it as quickly as possible. Irving Berlin

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se debe tener confianza en uno mismo y esa confianza debe estar basada en la realidad" (Bobby Fischer)

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: "Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.

und dass Liebe nicht am Beginn steht, wie mit einem Mausklick herbeigeführt, sondern sich allmählich, fast hinter dem Rücken der Beteiligten einstellt, sie heimsucht wie eine Krankheit, so schön wie unheilbar.

Our heads met, our eyes crossed paths, the window to the courtyard lay open, I whispered in his ear and he started crying in my hair, wept like a child, I stroked him, touched by his crying, that he opened up, as he truly was, rent his shirt and exposed his heart like the paintings of Jesus hung over the beds in country houses.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal.

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.

we'd rather not play the role of best friends. We'd rather be best friends, and that meant being truthful. Friendship is not a sentimental business.