True Voice Quotes

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

It might sound corny, but honestly, it's worth staying true to your voice. It'll get you places.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.