Quotes About Genuineness

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

When I watch films and it becomes just about the reference and not necessarily a flow with how people naturally speak, that's when you're just saying, 'Okay, I'm trying to be cool and show off.'

I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.

People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.

I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.

I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

There is a real Harold Lee.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. Straight up like that.

We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

No one wants to follow someone fake or boring. Being accessible on social media, being honest, and having fun with it is key.