Quotes About Authenticity

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

I made a statement all my own.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

When I sit down and try to write lyrics first - I've definitely done that in the past - but most of the time, they come off as a put-on, or less genuine than you would think. I'm the kind of guy that if I overthink a sentiment or I overthink a statement, it's weird.

I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.

At the end of the day, I'm not really trying to make a statement with any of my standup.

If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.

And I think the first LP was perhaps too precious. It was our life's work up to that point; there was so much pain in trying to make the perfect statement. We couldn't relax and I think most people missed what we were trying to say.

Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don't mind people seeing all of the things that I would consider imperfections, because, quite honestly, I feel like they're better than anything else they're gonna hear.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image.

If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.