Jason Mraz
Lucky to have been where I have beenCollection: Lucky
Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.Collection: Laughter
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.Collection: Block
I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.Collection: Giving Up
Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.Collection: Weekend
I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?Collection: Struggle
I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.Collection: Acceptance
I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Song
If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.Collection: Heart
You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.Collection: Fashion
If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.Collection: Expression
Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.Collection: Dream
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.Collection: Two
Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))Collection: Insane
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to DreamCollection: Dream
I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.Collection: Thinking
I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.Collection: Records
I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.Collection: Want
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.Collection: Inspirational
I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.Collection: Inspiration
Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.Collection: People
Everything in my life really filters down to the music.Collection: Filters
The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.Collection: Song
It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep our lives comfortable. If that's the case, the first 20 years of the shift have actually done a lot to support that. But there's still a long way to go, and judging by the state of the environment, we don't have that kind of time.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Needs
To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.Collection: Song
I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.Collection: Song
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.Collection: Song
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. For a lot of people they just want to see you or want to take a photograph of that moment. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about.Collection: People
I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.Collection: People
My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!Collection: Girl
I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.Collection: Track
Listen to the Music of the Moment, people....Dance and Sing!Collection: People
If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.Collection: Sweet
I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss.Collection: Views
As an American citizen, one has to vote.Collection: Citizens
What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.Collection: Jobs
When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.Collection: Falling In Love
Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))Collection: Together Again
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.Collection: Song
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dressesCollection: Beautiful
And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))Collection: Thinking
Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.Collection: Years
I won’t give up. Even if the skies get rough.Collection: Sky
Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it’s important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.Collection: Strong
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
Getting on stage is a bonus, that’s my therapy, that’s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.Collection: Stories