Quotes About Integrity

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

You can't give your songs to just anybody.

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.

Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

If you make a mistake at work, address it as soon as possible - don't hide it.

I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

Sooner or later a man has simply got to do what he thinks is right, no matter what other people, or the courts, or his friends, or his enemies, or God himself may tell him.