Quotes About Authenticity

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present in the now, and a little messy?'

Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.

I'm very scruffy and messy in the way that I am and always have been.

I want to go into the margins, into those moments where there's snot hanging out of your nose and things aren't cute and you're not pretty. I'm all for messy. That's what I want to explore.

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.