Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

You can't fool children.

There's always space for me to grow and I think that experimenting and making mistakes is gonna get me to this position where I'm trying to be is always changing.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

I just want to keep challenging myself and keep, like, trying new things.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.