Jason Robert Brown Quotes

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

I'm starting to find my own style.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

My work is intensely personal.