Quotes About Authenticity

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

I'm not an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.

I often hear that those are people's favorite episodes, the ones with people that they don't know. That's the magic of 'Hot Ones.'

You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.

You can't escape from what you are.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

There's no way to escape who we are.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

Everybody is saying, 'ESPN is not cool, no one is paying attention to ESPN, they're all paying attention to the Barstools of the world.' Why? Because we're authentic.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I essentially write for myself.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

I want to show the Everton fans what I'm really about.

If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we'd probably make some schmaltzy record.

We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.