Quotes About Authenticity

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

Oversharing online can make you feel connected to someone in the moment, but when the moment is over, the only thing that has really changed is that you just gave a piece of yourself away.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

There is no better way to create a confident and meaningful connection with someone than to be self-assured and true to yourself. Remember, you want someone to truly appreciate you for you, not for your best side. There is only one you. Be proud of that and own it.

You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection.

I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.