Quotes by Jason Mraz

Im dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town Im counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down.- Sleeping to Dream

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.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.

I wont give up on us

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 line

You can turn off the sun but Im still gonna shine.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.

I think its important and I think its true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, its our way of saying, Im unattached to that. Youre tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Ive always enjoyed singing and cant recall a time in my life where I wasnt singing. Im most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Im totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and thats the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

A rescue mission doesnt involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You cant just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that childs original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.