Quotes About Genuineness

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound like I'm being sarcastic.

I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper.

I do play nice guys. I really do.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

I am being completely serious when I state this: Sage Northcutt might just be the nicest human being I have ever met in my life. He is sweet as can be. He doesn't have an evil bone in his body.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

What good were real feelings anyway?

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

An authentic life comes from an authentic self in which the layers on the outside are merely expressions of the core on the inside.

When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.

Don't mix up who I am and what I am," she told him quietly. "You have to be honest with me, or the rest of it means nothing.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

You can't fool people into loving you.

The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

You can't fool people into loving you.

did you really mean it?

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.