Quotes About Authenticity

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.

A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

I would be lying if I said I wanted to wake up and work out every day.

I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb, or he's lying to himself.

What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don't fear that is lying.

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

B.G. was just like his lyrics.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I think Ma is more honest than I am sometimes.

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

Goldberg is authentic. What you see is what you get, and he's a wrecking machine.

I'm not a machine.

I'm not a hit machine.