Josh Gondelman Quotes

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I am an emotional guy. I try to be very honest.

I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

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.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

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.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

Whatever you think about me, I was pretty open about how I felt about people.

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.