John Lennon Quotes

As you talk, so is your heart.

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.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I accept I use bad language, but I speak from the heart.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

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.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

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.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

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

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

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

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.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.