Quotes About Integrity

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I hope I dont give music a bad name.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.