Quotes About Transparency

No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

The ability to say 'I was wrong' or to own up to your mistakes is very powerful. I teach my children that admitting fault is the quickest way to stop the problem, move on and get on with whatever it is you should be doing.

There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing out... the entire thing, every detail, answer the questions and move on.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about what I saw. I would want to give him a chance to explain. However, depending on how major the flirting was, I would probably mention it to my friend - just to let her know what's going on.

I am not someone who will bare my soul on Twitter. If I am angry with somebody, I will abuse them there, if I am happy, I will express it there.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

I don't want to be mysterious.

It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.

Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel the mess that is life - and who are bigger messes than artists?

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.