Quotes about Authenticity

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

It's all about how you feel, not how you look

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

As was his language so was his life.