Quotes About Sincerity

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

You can't write something to please someone.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

I think the main thing is to continue being true to myself. I'll never do anything just to cater or pander to the audience I have. I need to be 100% behind it too. Otherwise it's completely pointless.

What I don't like is talking points.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.

I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

People don't buy from clowns.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.