Quotes About Authenticity

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage, " "honestly, " or "marketplace.

LESS fabrication, MORE facilitation

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

Visibility without Value is Vanity

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

You are not the car you drive.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

Although it is embarassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways hat you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways.

You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.

How honest do we want to be with ourselves?