Quotes About Authenticity

I would say I am unapologetically nerdy. I was always a little awkward.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

'Down Home with the Neelys' was the highest-rated Food Network show in history. But the crazy part about it was I never wanted to do that show. I never wanted to live my life quite out loud like that.

I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.

People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

Networking doesn't have to be all about talking shop over appetizers and bad chardonnay - do it in a way that works for you.

I think there is something about the Internet which gives people almost an opportunity to role play and to create a facade, an image. I see that as quite a dangerous development because I think what we call social networking, Twitter, Facebook, etc., is actually quite antisocial.

Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.