Quotes About Honesty

But everyone has secrets, don't they? But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that's it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it's gone. You shouldn't inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

And you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

The one person who must never know about this … is my wife.

I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.

There's no question I'm responsible for some of the plays and some of the games we haven't won. I'm not going to shy away from that.

There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

There's no reason for me to lie. If I did something, I'll admit to it. I don't want to be accused of something I didn't do.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

I'm not going to apologize for my success. How I live is no secret.

In the past, I've been very open and affectionate towards females. It's definitely no secret.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.