I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.
Commoner: It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.
Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
