Quotes About Authenticity

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

When you go to jail you know who real and who ain't.

I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.

James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He's real different than what you thinks. He's super turned up.

I'm not James Dean. And no one else is, either.

I was fortunate enough to be able to keep my real name and build a whole bio around Mickie James.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Sable was a character I played for three years, but I am Rena. It would be the same as if Sean Connery went through life being called James Bond.

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.

I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.