Quotes About Authenticity

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots at someone else but they just run away and manage to dodge the bullet. Or people are all firing at each other continuously for 10 minutes.

I hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an easy path.

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I don't deviate - once you get validated for being you, I don't know why you would deviate. I stick to my gut and my taste.

The apprehension whether people will like it or not also doesn't bother me much. I've always done my work with a gut feeling that this is what I would like to do and I've always enjoyed doing it.

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

Having the guts to be the person you are is what makes you brave.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

The feeling of the early '90s... I think it was more... It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining.

I am not the fittest guy, I don't have biceps and six-pack abs.

I'm not really a pick-up-line guy. I don't know what I do.