Robyn Quotes

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

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

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

I love Andrew Weatherall; he's so real and uncompromising and a sweetheart.

Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character.

I'm a real person. You can ask anybody who knows me.

I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling and if there isn't any genuine feeling, if the song isn't about anything that anyone gives a damn about, there's nothing you can do. All the technique that exists won't make it any good; it'll just make it technological. All the production values you add won't do anything except make it glossy.

I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.