Quotes About Authenticity

It's ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.

Find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you're expected to do. That's what makes life interesting.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

This is not a game of Who The Fuck Are You.

The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid, then be a mermaid.

Definition of laying: you get cut sooner or later.

Religious show it with actions not with the lips.

If you love someone, let them go. And if you have to point a gun at them to get them to talk to you, it's probably not meant to be.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?

A truncated spirituality, intent mainly upon finding an inner connection to the self, does not truly represent the mind of Christ.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.