Keke Palmer Quotes

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

If you don't believe in what you're doing, if you don't feel comfortable, or you're not meaning what you're saying, no matter if you love it or not - you can still connect with a song, but if you don't, I feel like people can easily sniff that out.

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

Love alone is credible.

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

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.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album. There's a big universe out here, and I don't want to just sing to the church. I want to sing to the world and bring them a message of love. I love going to church and singing gospel songs, but right now there's a message that the world needs.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.