Quotes About Authenticity

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

It's not what color you are or how you fare with fans, it's who you are and what personality you have.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

No, no, no, I'm not a fashion show type of dude.

I dress to feel comfortable and beautiful, not to be fashionable.

I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I'm not fashionable.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I've never been fashionable, so I'll never be out of fashion.