Quotes About Authenticity

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Movies are different from real life.

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.