Todd Cantwell Quotes

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

Passion is not something you have to talk about. People feel it.

A lot of people think I reacted a little too emotionally when I said, 'If I can't beat Adrian Neville, I'm done.' But the truth is, my whole life, I've always followed my heart and my emotions.

The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.

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.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

That which fires youth, generally rings true.