Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

Women I've known have always been quite strong and confident women. Sure, I've got some friends who aren't so overtly confident, or at least don't appear that way. But when you get to know them, they are very much so.

I know I may appear spacey, but that's how I am.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

My appearance with disheveled hair and no make-up is the real me.

You can't be around people who appease you all the time.

I don't like applying too much makeup.

I think people are particularly interested to see who the real me is, but... different stories call for different approaches and you change based on the experience you want that person to have.

If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain trust with somebody, I feel like, 'You know what, I can open up to this person and tell them about an experience.'

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.

I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

People aren't always going to approve or like what you have to say. But as long as you believe in it and are happy, that's all that matters.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.

I would definitely look for someone who is really honest and a very confident guy, but not arrogant and definitely someone who makes me laugh.

It would be arrogant to come to music only thinking about success.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

If there's a group of articles written about me, I can usually tell the difference if someone's writing an article and they know me from someone who doesn't know me. They're usually very different.

I'm not the most articulate person.

I am not an artist.

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.