Quotes About Authenticity

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

I don't want to do something just to be on TV. If I did I might as well just go on and put a meat pie on my head! If I go on TV I want to be doing something I want to do.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.