Quotes About Authenticity

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

I personally don't have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)