Quotes About Authenticity

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.