Ryan Ross Quotes

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

I'm such a pleaser - I want everyone around me to be happy - so it took a while for me to get to a point where I could say 'no, I need to be happy with everything that I put out.' I want it to be right.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

It's such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.