Adrianne Lenker Quotes

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.

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

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

All of my music is honest.

I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

I don't want to be fake.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

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

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

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

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

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

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Most style is not honest enough.

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

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.

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.

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

The art of life is to show your hand.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.