Quotes About Authenticity

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

If you want to give a show, make it real, and people will listen to you more carefully.

I try to choose my words carefully, and only say what I mean and mean what I say.

The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?

I'm more comfortable with myself and saying whatever I want and not really caring about anyone else.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

I can walk in a room of people who may not know Christ and still be myself. And they can still see Christ in me even though they may not know who it is, but I know that they can see that in me and I'm carrying that with me.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion, and that's what is about for me.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also.