“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

“I'd rather be hated for what I am than to be loved for what I'm not.”

“I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you”

“I'd rather hate you for everything you are Than ever love you for something you are not I'd rather you hate me for everything I am Than have you love me for something that I can't" — Five Finger Death Punch”

“Naturally, I have no heroes: I am my heroes. I am my brothers and sisters. I feel myself joined by the soul with all beauty. My heart sings with every brave endeavour. With the strange wings of impossible butterflies, with every rock that breathes life into the world. I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. I honour spirit and faith and uphold the glorious amateur. I'm in love with desperate men with desperate hands, walking in second-hand shoes searching for God and hearing God and hating God. I'm a desperate man, buckled with fear, I am a desperate man who demands to be listened to, who demands to connect. I'm a desperate man who denounces the dullness of money and status. I'm a desperate man who will not bow down to accolade or success. I'm a desperate man who loves the simplicity of painting and hates galleries and white walls and the dealers in art. Who loves unreasonableness and hotheadedness, who loves contradiction, hates publishing houses and also I am Vincent Van Gogh, Hiroshige and every living artist who dares to draw God on this planet.”