Jade Bird Quotes

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

I have to worry how other women and girls will react to my music. Will they really understand the message that I'm trying to put out there?

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with. There are people I can tell are amazing, but I can't connect for some reason. It doesn't really make sense why you connect with someone or you don't.

It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.