J. P. Morgan Quotes

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

I'm going to let you know the real, and I'm going to let you know the real as I can about me.

You have to be honest about who you are.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?