Quotes About Genuineness

Life's too short to bullshit.

I am who I am. I'm not going to go out of my way to impress anybody for a sponsorship. I'm not going to change who I am for a sponsorship.

The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

It's who I am. You win awards for sportsmanship and whatever, but that's just me being me. I'm not doing anything extra.

I can't be someone that I'm not. And people can spot when someone's being fake, when somebody's not being real, when somebody's sugar-coating stuff. People don't like that.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

People can spot a phony and I think young people can spot a phony.

Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere. That's why I always try to say something authentic.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.