Borns Quotes

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

I love interpreting other people's music.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.