Quotes About Sincerity

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

I'm not about sound bites. I'm about substance.

I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to show that on camera. I'm not perfect. I'm someone who works hard, who is serious about what they're doing. It's substance over style.

I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly.

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

The realest people don't have a lot of friends.

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life. Thus, the biggest threat to false piety is the honest, sincere human heart.

At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life

Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion