Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.