Genuine Tone Quotes

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.