Quotes About Honesty

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

My dad and I's relationship before he cheated on my mom... I think it was such a healthy father and son relationship. He always knew I was gay, and he never ever shamed me for being gay or anything. He shamed other people for if they had anything to say.

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Songwriters tell the truth.

It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

I am an open book through the songwriting.

I'm glad that people realize that I am a songwriter. I just want them to take away the fact that I'm honest, and that I'm putting in work on the sonic side.

If you make a mistake at work, address it as soon as possible - don't hide it.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.