Grimes Quotes

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

I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.

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

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

You know, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't like to have to speak filtering for what I thought somebody else would or wouldn't want me to say.

I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of.

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

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.

When we are aligned with our highest selves, we trust ourselves enough to follow our hearts. Then we are able to be straight and tell the truth about who we are, and what we want, even if it disappoints someone else. Are you being straight about who you are?

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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

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

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

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.

I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.