Quotes About Authenticity

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.