Quotes About Authenticity

People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.

I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

When 'Game Of Thrones' came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing - getting more followers doesn't bother me at all.

Whatever I say is so honest when I'm doing interviews.

I recognize that I'm in a band, and part of being in a band is doing interviews, and I do have a platform so I want to use that platform to talk about things that are real.

I just try to be myself in interviews, you do get a lot of people that change, put a front on to try and be something they're not.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.

The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Intimate scenes are always super awkward - and that is the truth. I know everybody says it, but it really is true.

Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

A man who does not approach me because of my screen image or is intimidated by me is probably not being worth approached by.

I do my own way of witnessing. Not by verbally intimidating people but just by my actions.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.

'Imperial' is me attempting to reach my ultimate form and to introduce a lifestyle of truth to my fans, be honest with yourself, and you will grow, ULT.