Quotes About Genuineness

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

We simply can't feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.