Quotes About Authenticity

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

I'm not in the business of politics.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I know some people like to get up and pontificate about everything they did in the past and have a lot of long stories about that. But I'm not one of those kind of guys.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.

I can be high maintenance for my work when I have to look good, but in my day-to-day life, hanging out at home, I'm happy with no make-up on and my hair in a ponytail.

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

I would say, if you come out, they can't take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it's not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I'm judged for what I do in the diving pool.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.

People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.