Conviction Quotes

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.' ... I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.