Jeremy Collier Quotes

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Me, I'm trying to sound like me. I don't be trying to sound like somebody.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

First of all, be what you are.

I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

I'm totally myself.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

It's not an act, it's just my way.