Quotes About Sincerity

Whatever I say is so honest when I'm doing interviews.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

'Imperial' is me attempting to reach my ultimate form and to introduce a lifestyle of truth to my fans, be honest with yourself, and you will grow, ULT.

I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

I'm not a shock jock at all.

Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.