Quotes About Sincerity

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.

I think there's a whole group of kids out there that don't relate to the glitz and glamour of hanging out in clubs and partying all the time. So I think some people are just more real than that, and I think our fans are those kind of kids that need something to relate to, and I think we're the band to do it.

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

When you're relaxed, the crowd can see it. They can feel it. They can tell when you're being real, or they can tell when you're forcing it.

It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I shoot straight from the hip and do not play games.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

Working with people who have a lot of heart is just the best. You can hire it, but you cannot teach it. It's either there or it's not.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

I'm not a guy who holds up a product and says, 'Drink this.'

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.