Quotes About Authenticity

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

People want to see realism in action now.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

People just want honest music.

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.