Quotes About Authenticity

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

I've been living a lie all my life.

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves