Jesse Ventura Quotes

I'm not going to tone down my rhetoric, and I'm not going to censor myself in sharing what I believe to be the truth. People could either love that or hate that, but I'm not really interested in playing games in order to appeal to a broader audience.

Kanye is always going to be Kanye. He is always going to be outspoken. He's always going to say exactly how he feels.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.

I'm being my real raw self, and that's what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

My goal is never to tone down.

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

We're just unapologetically ourselves in the DMV.

There's nothing coy or frilly about me.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.