Quotes About Authenticity

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

My independent songs are actually about me, so if you really want to know me, listen to my songs and know what I have been through in my life.

My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.

I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.

I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs and snip it together and make something, but everything I say I do.

Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

'Girl In A Country Song' is basically a song about what it's like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.

Lots of songs aren't even from my experiences, but they're about accepting... the dark things about yourself.

I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what's real and what's fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.