Dave Matthews Quotes

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!