Quotes About Authenticity

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.

Our music contradicts our look.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

I love outdoor places in the evenings; I don't like box-like clubs.

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.

I really wanted my fans to understand that outer appearances really don't matter.