Sherri Saum Quotes

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.