Sam Fender Quotes

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

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

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Truth is the best defense.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.