Quotes About Authenticity

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

I'm very happy being big and effeminate.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically.

I'm not into fame and ego.

You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I don't try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there's a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.