Quotes About Authenticity

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.

Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It's more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important.

Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.

I'm just going to be myself. And when you're bein' yourself, you don't have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don't got to sugarcoat nothin'.

True stories are way more interesting.

If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.

You want to have pressure and tell stories that you find a real reason to tell, aside from any business reason. If business is your only reason, that always goes badly.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.