Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I don't enjoy songwriting.