Robyn Quotes

I can't fake emotion.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Anything that I ever do is from the heart and authentic.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

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'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 know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.