Jim Rohn Quotes

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

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

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

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.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

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

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

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

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

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

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.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

I'm not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and 'I just bought some red bottoms.' That's cool, but that's not all there is to it. I'd rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

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.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.