Jason Mraz
You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.Collection: Art
I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy.Collection: Capacity To Love
For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Light
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. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.Collection: Teacher
When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.Collection: Song
When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Athlete
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.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Hands
When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.Collection: Strong
When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.Collection: Real
Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.Collection: Powerful
Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.Collection: Negativity
It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.Collection: Laughing
I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.Collection: Home
The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.Collection: Mind
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home againCollection: Home
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.Collection: Song
You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore.Collection: Gratitude
Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?Collection: Ends
And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))Collection: Going Away
Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don’t forget you’re one of a kind When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done And nobody’s hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly))Collection: Fashion
You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.Collection: Ocean
Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Love Is
Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.Collection: Dream
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.Collection: Art
I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"Collection: Thinking
Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.Collection: Stress
I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.Collection: Reality
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.Collection: Music
I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.Collection: School
I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.Collection: Writing
It takes some silence to make sound.Collection: Silence
I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.Collection: Struggle
It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.Collection: Forsaken
I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.Collection: Music
I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.Collection: Sleep
I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.Collection: Thinking
Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It's weird. We have to call it "love," because we have to call it something, but it's not a word. It's an energy. It's an act. It's an action. It's a natural thing.Collection: Love Is
In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.Collection: People
If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.Collection: World
Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the lineCollection: Law
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.Collection: Writing
Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.Collection: People
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.Collection: Beautiful