Rodney Atkins Quotes

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.

I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.