Quotes About Authenticity

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.