Quotes About Honesty

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

What if what you know isn't what people want to hear?

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.