Quotes About Authenticity

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

The audience in the country has evolved, and for them, it is about real characters.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

There's so much PC police. There's so much, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' We're the exact opposite.

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

It doesn't matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

There's a side of me vocally that people didn't know existed. I had to get it out of me.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I don't like expectations.

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.