Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.

Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.

I haven't got muscles, and I don't live in West Hollywood.

I'm not trying to be with six-pack abs and big muscles and all that. None of that, you know.

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

With Milli Vanilli, we felt more like bimbos, the bimbos of the music industry, and we didn't want to be the bimbos anymore.

Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn't make believe.

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

I love musical theater because it's live. There is no Auto-Tune. There's no second chance. What you see is what you get. You have to be amazing every night.

I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.