What is the quality of your intent?
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
If your intention is pure, an audience will recognise it and connect with you.
Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
I do not want anyone in Bolton to think that, if I play there, I am doing it for the wrong reasons.
I do not create events for the sake of television.
A lot of people say they don't care about the belt, but that's not true. For me, when I say it, I really mean that.
If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.
But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.
Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.
As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?
You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.
I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.
If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.
He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.
I'm not just some other rich girl who's trying to get a show.
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.
