Quotes About Authenticity

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

You'll never find me in a gym.

I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I have of speaking my mind.

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

You are going to look comfortable only if your feel comfortable. That is probably the only fashion hack.

As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

I've got greasy hair, what can I say?

I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

I've seen stuff that says be nice and I think: you're not showing me anything. You're telling me, like a Hallmark card: be nice, nice to be nice, innit?

I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.

I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

Going to church no more making you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.