Unpolished Quotes

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.

I'm a terrible dancer.

When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

My forte is awkwardness.

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

People who know me know that I am very clumsy, always fumbling, and I talk rubbish most of the times.

I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

I like amateur things.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

I don't look great. I'm a bit ramshackle.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.

I'm unpolished, I guess.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.