Aleister Black Quotes

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

Authenticity resonates with people. The industry can be very misleading and is built to make people believe what they see. But people aren't dumb they can see through that and I think real music and real people resonate.

I tend to write a lot of love songs, but I always want there to be something real and authentic that people can connect to, and I want to not just do it in a stereotypical way.

In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.