Quotes On Authenticity

I have this formula for music. If I continue to write songs about my life, and my life is always changing, then my music will always be changing.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

A man writing about his feelings from a vulnerable place is brave; a woman writing about her feelings from a vulnerable place is oversharing or whining.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

I like imperfection - it makes things more interesting.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

I don't go for the flash and panache.