Quotes About Genuine

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

I just always have that connection with my fans where I want to give them my most like raw authentic self.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

I'm as real as they come.

It's best to keep acting real.

Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

I'm the real deal.

I'm not a phony. I'm the real deal.

Paul was the real deal. Both in the movie business and real life.

I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.

I live a very real life.

I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.