Quotes About Sincerity

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

I don't think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

There are just some things that I don't think jokes are good for.

Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage. People had every reason to doubt my sincerity, but most of them didn't. And - given my history, it was more than I could've hoped for - forgiveness and the benefit of the doubt. It still amazes me.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.

The realest of cats love with all of their being...