Iggy Pop Quotes

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

I think people always respond to real moments.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

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

I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in that respect, they lose any kind of sincerity. I don't know why. It's just my ears.

My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.