Quotes About Sincerity

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

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 would never try to recreate something 'bad' on purpose.

I used to call him Pinocchio on the sets. Pinocchio's nose would turn red if he lied. Aamir would turn red-faced if he had to tell a lie.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.

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

I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!

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.

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.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

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.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.