Quotes About Sincerity

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.

All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Be genuine. Put out what you want to receive; that's the same for real life and Tinder.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

I reckon I'm actually one of the least funny in my family.

If your intention is pure, an audience will recognise it and connect with you.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

For me, you want to be recognized as someone who is real and shoots people straight.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.