Quotes About Authenticity

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

It's no fun to be miscast. The times I've done parts that I don't feel, in retrospect, I was great for - it's a very bad feeling.

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.

You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

We have no intention of being the fashion kings they're trying to make us out to be.

I just have no interest in being at a party.

A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.