Quotes About Authenticity

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Stay true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I never, ever in my life tried to be outrageous. I've only ever tried to say what was truly on my mind and not pull punches about it.

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.