Bob Saget Quotes

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

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.

We want to be presentable and respectable, but feel like we can talk freely about what we want to sing about - we don't need to cuss to have that bad-boy attitude, I guess.

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to.

I don't want to do music in a box, like everybody say what I can't do, 'he can't say this.'

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a really effective medium for getting people to hear exactly the things and viewpoints that they normally don't want listen to.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.