Quotes About Authenticity

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.'

I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

I decided to put my money where my mouth was and make films that I believe in. So even if I failed, I failed on my terms.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

So often, I go to L.A. and I feel like I'm hanging out with robots. And all they do is sit around and talk about other people. I could run my mouth, but at the same time, if that's all we're doing is talking about other people, it's not cute!

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

The more I talk, the more I come out and people get to know who I am and what I'm about, it's only gonna help. And if you don't like me, hey, cool. Everything in life is 50/50. I accept the good and the bad and just move on.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.