Quotes About Authenticity

When I make a lot of really good music with someone, I want to let the world hear it right now; unfiltered. I don't think it has to be more complicated than that.

I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

I'm not even going to lie - when I'm in the studio, I'm not like, 'Alright, let me make a hit.' I just try to make good music to the best of my ability.

The good news about being full of crap is that once you're willing to admit that you're full of crap, you can de-crap yourself.

There are good parts and bad parts and middle parts about everybody. So what I would like to be known as is someone who was true to himself and passionate about the game.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.

I personally feel like people shouldn't have to come out. That, to me, was like a moment for myself where I was coming out to myself with, like, 'Okay, I can be the artist that I want to be, and as long as the music is good, people will accept me. It doesn't matter who I am, what I look like. If the music is good, they will like me. The end.'

I care more about who people are as a person and being around good people because when you leave the world, you're not going to be able to take the money.

I'm always going to be myself and I'm a good person.

You can't be a good actor if you are not a good person.

Im nearly 50, I dont really care what people think of me. I know Im a really good person.

I'm not an attractive fight for most people. I never have been. I haven't been called out too many times in my career, and there's a good reason for that.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really difficult to write a good song about it.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

I'm just unapologetically myself, and I think that's a good thing and people respect that.

I think anyplace people can be themselves is a good thing.

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Sometimes it is a good thing to hear what kids have to tell you. Kids just tell the truth.

I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

The truth is a good thing.

The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.