Quotes About Authenticity

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be "communicated with.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.