K. Flay Quotes

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

I've always stood for my people, with my people, but some guys just don't have voices like that. I don't like the pressure some people put on others. Some people are just not built for it. Some guys just play basketball, they don't talk, they don't post. Everybody in the '60s wasn't in the civil rights movement.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

I think if it is something an actor believes in and has an opinion on it, then there is no better way to use that platform.

Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my position and not say anything is a hell of a political thing. You need to think politically, otherwise you'll be one of these people who says, Oh, this person's saying this and that person's saying that, and I'm confused. And I say, yeah, because you want to be confused.

Ultimately, if someone's paying hard-earned money to see me play live, they don't want a rant about what's happening on the other side of the world. They don't want to know which way they should vote.

While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.