Jason Mraz Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Lucky to have been where I have been
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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.
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How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.
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Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
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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.
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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.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
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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.
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Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
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I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.
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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.
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I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).
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So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.
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Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.
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And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
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If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.
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By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
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You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
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"Be nice to your parents." When they made the decision to have a child, whether it was planned or not, they were changing their entire lives to do the best they could for this new human being. A lot of young people, we don't understand that.
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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.
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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.