Quotes About Authenticity

I don't like to tell lies.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

No lies, just love.

I don't do lies!

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

I have never run for office and I don't have political experience. But I do have life experiences.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

Not everybody's life is a movie.

It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I will not have my face lifted.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

I don't trust people who are likable.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.