Yeah, I’m an open book.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I only act from my heart.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

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

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.