Quotes About Authenticity

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I'm totally sick of hotels. I'm totally sick of room service. I'm totally sick of how can I help you ma'am? I just want to go home and wash some dishes, play with my cat, watch some TV.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you're gonna say them. You can't strategize.

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.