Quotes About Sincerity

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

I can't keep my trap shut in interviews - I'm not very good at dissembling.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

I'm not a trash talker, that's not my thing. But if someone asks me, I'm going to say what I feel and what I think.

I'm really white trash.

I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.

A lot of people came up to me and said you need to trash talk. That's not me.

The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the shortest distance traveled emotionally, sonically.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.

My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'

I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.