Quotes About Authenticity

I'm serious about you, Avery. If you want me for real, you have me.

Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want

Don't invite me if you don't want me.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.