Quotes About Genuineness

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.

People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.

People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.

I'm not gonna be one of those guys who's going to do the Conor McGregor effect and talk a bunch of crap to make money.

I want to be real and relatable, because if I am not, then I lose my credibility among audiences.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

I'm not a crisis actor.

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

I don't have any special skills or any hidden talents. I don't.

I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that. Anybody who's a fake I don't like and I don't talk to.

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.