Michael Franti Quotes

I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I think a lot of people don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don't. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. But I'm happier this way - it's a good thing for me.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I can't hide my feelings.

I don’t hide my emotions from people.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

I am an emotional guy. I try to be very honest.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

I say what I'm feeling, and a lot of people feel the same way.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.