Quotes About Authenticity

For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.

Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.

I'm not a great one for chatting people up because it's phoney.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Just being famous feels cheap to me.

For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

People want to be entertained. They don't want to be cheated.

I'd rather write a check than make myself look ridiculous.

I'm not one of those celebrities that will just put my name on something and expect to get a check.

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

It is very important to just be real and have a good check on reality in life.

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.

I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.