Quotes About Sincerity

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

Young people want you to be real with them.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

People just want honest music.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'