Virginia Woolf Quotes

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

I still think people like to hear from someone's heart and how they really feel than the old political rhetoric trying to not say the wrong thing because how would it look, would they get votes, lose votes.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.