Quotes About Authenticity

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

I don't wear clothes that I am not comfortable with - clothes will not get you popularity.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

Popularity is the last thing I want.

We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.

I express myself a lot on Tumblr, especially through my diary entries, but my Instagram is my modeling portfolio. I have my game face on at all times.

Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don't have a PR agency, I don't have a manager, and I don't even have a professional portfolio. People who hire me are people who, just like the audience, have just seen me in a small role here or in an ad there.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.