Quotes About Authenticity

I'm really not someone who is drawn to something that's in your face, it feels a little forced.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

I think cancer - I'm not an expert or a doctor - but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I never tried forcing anyone to understand me. Everybody has their own opinion. But I will always be happy the way I am.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

I have got lines on my forehead, so be it, the laugh lines add to my personality.

When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place.

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

I don't think that we should be trying to forge love online. I think that we should get it offline.

I don't want to be one of those guys who makes it somewhere and forgets where they come from. Flint is very important to me.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.