Jason Mraz Quotes

And when you're needing your space to do some navigating...I' ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

New York City has the most beautiful women.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

Everything in life influences my music.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.