Quotes About Genuineness

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

The realest people don't have a lot of friends.

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

Beware of copycats

after all, there is such a thing as truth.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.