Quotes About Reality

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this to me!' but she is still super beautiful. There's none of the realism that we just went through.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

I always tell myself, 'Nothing's perfect.'

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

When you're telling the truth and ahead of the mainstream media - like The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Cernovich, and other truth-tellers - then they're going to think you're wrong, because they can't see what you see.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.

Love's hard. It's hard work. No one tells you that.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.