Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

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.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

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 say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

I am not a trained singer, but I always sing from my heart.

I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

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.

I write with all my heart

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

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

I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

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

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

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

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