Quotes About Integrity

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I take my craft seriously.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

This radio business I'm in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off.

But what astonished me is that this Croatian, this Mirko Cro Cop guy, called me the best in the world, a legend in front of me, but behind the computer he's talking a bunch of crap. What kind of man are you to say this crap online and not to my face?

I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.

What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

I'm not gonna be one of those guys who's going to do the Conor McGregor effect and talk a bunch of crap to make money.

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

If I'm not performing on the field, if I'm not doing what's expected of me, what I say or attempt to get across to anyone else has no credence.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.