Tom Verlaine Quotes

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

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

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I live a very real life.

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

He's a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He's laid-back, charming, funny. There's no side to him.

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

Salman is a very relaxed and chilled out guy with no pretentions. What you see is what you get. That's great in an industry which survives on creating images and personas.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

He is a regular guy who absolutely is not attracted to his own celebrity. He's a jokester, a little rough around the edges, with great heart and compassion; he loves his family. I feel very comfortable with him. I don't see 'Denzel Washington Star'; I just see Denzel.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

I don't do style. I just show up for the games.

We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.

I feel like people see me as this girl next door, and that comes across in my photos.