Quotes About Truth

My son wasn't gay. No way.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

My son is not guilty of abetment.

What's Shobhaa De's problem with me and my son? What does she mean by saying, 'Like father, like son?' Let the truth come out.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Songwriters tell the truth.

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

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

I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth.

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same thing.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

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

When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.

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

You've got to understand and accept that nothing in the world is perfect. The sooner you understand that, the better it will be.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

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