Quotes About Integrity

I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.

I promise that I will continue to do different films and if I feel that the film has not come out well, I will even stop the release. That's the reason I produce all my films.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'

I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

We are not going to release an album that we don't believe in.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

I always want to align myself with stuff that's part of doing good. I don't ever want to put myself with something that's not cool and hip. And if you can keep that you can always have fans to support you as well.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself.

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.

I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.

I don't want to hire people who have less of a commitment than I do.

I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.

Working with people who have a lot of heart is just the best. You can hire it, but you cannot teach it. It's either there or it's not.

I don't want to become a director for hire.

Del Toro absolutely treated me like anyone else - he came to England and hired me, I didnt have to go out there. If that guy gave me the job its my duty to make him think he hasnt made a mistake, so I was prepared for what I had to do.

It is right to give every man his due.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.