Quotes About Authenticity

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

I don't do any corporate work.

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.