Quotes About Authenticity

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

I don't like wearing suits all the time. I don't like looking like the clean-cut kind of dude. I think the coolest guys are the ones who dress how they want to dress.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.