Quotes About Authenticity

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This…hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?

She eyed him steadily, wondering at his sudden . . . humanity. Maybe dying did away with the usual games, the pretenses of the living dance.

There is no armor made that can withstand the truth. -Karsa Orlong.

Think what you like about yourself, but we will continue seeing you as you are - a noble man." "Noble -" "Not that kind of noble, Ganoes. This is the kind that's earned, the only kind that means anything. Because, in this day and age, it's damned rare.

To be a living artist is to be driven again and again to explain oneself, to justify every creative decision, yet to bite down hard on the bit is the only honourable recourse, to my mind at least. Explain nothing, justify even less. Grin at the gallows, dear friends!

But ownership bereft of propriety was a lie.

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out.

to hide weakness behind bluster was to hide nothing at all.

Now that's a laugh, isn't it? The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.

No matter how doctrinally sound we may be, if we are without love, we are "a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Corinthians 13:1). Without love for others, regardless of how involved we are in Christian activities, we are "nothing.