Quotes About Authenticity

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

I have no problem joking about who I am.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.

I have no problem with answering questions honestly or even looking outside the box and answering private questions.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.

But if you're going to make a judgment about me, then you need to know who I really am, not just the part I decide to tell you. I'd rather be honest about all of it and let you make the call as to whether you want to keep talking to me or not." "Have

You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Mi limito a dire alle persone quello che già sanno, ma hanno paura di ammettere con sé stesse.

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

What good were real feelings anyway?

You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making to much noise in restaurants and clubs and winebars. 'Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!' Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.

He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

opinion. Love meant being brave, otherwise you had already lost your own argument: the man who couldn't tell a woman he loved her was, by definition, not worthy of her.

They're not me, but I wish I was them. Maybe not them, exactly, because they're not so happy either. But I wish I was one of those people, the people who know what to say, the people who can't see the difference. Because it seems to me that you have more chance of being able to live a life you can stand if you're like that.

This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in.

There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of people, it had somehow been drained of its worth.