Jana Kramer Quotes

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

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

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there's something about her that's just very honest. I feel like so many people across the board can relate to her and who she is. She's just so appealing and very real.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I'm being the most helpful I can possibly be.