Quotes About Authenticity

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

Clearly, I'm not trying to write songs for the radio.

A man doesn't wear a red cowboy hat.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Anything that makes the show unique is something I enjoy. If people blow their horns from their boats at Humphreys, or someone yells out something, that says to the audience: 'This is only happening right now. This is only happening tonight.' That's a good thing, no matter what it is.

'Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.

never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.

He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie.

not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film. Daniel

A Master Craftsman of Acting, like Daniel Day-Lewis, spends years selecting, preparing, and acting for just a single film. He is not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

I pity you. All your life you are going to be paralyzed by What Is Done, by what people tell you you should think or do... The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while.

band mates, audiences or bewildered passers-by on the street. Anyone, as long as he could make a connection. His was not a persona applied for a performance and removed at the end of the evening along with the gold lamé suit,

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.