You just don't come across proper, deep, loyal friendships very easily later on in life.
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
I used to think I had and needed so many friends to feel loved. I know now that if you have one or two, you are good. More than that, you are great.
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
In daily life, I'm not a heavy user anyway, but I'm extra careful online because of the kids who look up to me. That's the fun part of being an actor - that kids like you - because they are very pure and transparent in their likes and dislikes. There's no filter like the ones on Instagram.
I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.
It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.
I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.
Every time I come to Detroit, I feel the same energy every time. The people are vibing. They're outgoing and loving. They're solid, and a lot of people aren't like that. They're honest and real from the jump.
In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the South, people are genuine and real, so if I can be based out there and go off to Hollywood to do a film or do another TV show and then fly back to Nashville, I'd be set.
Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.
I just couldn't handle people coming on to me with motives other than music.
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287
