Quotes About Authenticity

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

Life is not for show, but for real.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.