Nas Quotes

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

I've never gone out and courted favors. I've never gone out to be booed, either. It's just me being myself.

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

I'm an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

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

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.