Clancy Brown Quotes

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 think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

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

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

I'm a fairly unaffected human being. I'm easy to talk to, I hope. I'm not too bothered about the clothes I'm wearing. I've been misquoted in interviews as to appear earnest. Which I am not.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I like real people. I like real things.

The role that people think I play is not a role. When I go home, and I'm with my sisters, I'm the same way. When I'm with my boys, I'm the same way.

Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.

I think there's kind of a comfortability with me onstage - and I think my cool factor is not having one. I'm not extra cool or extra different.

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

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.

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.