Mod Sun Quotes

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

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.

As a fan of music, I don't like that artists release one body of music a year and then disappear because it's hard to relate to that. I wanted to be able to bring my fans along on my journey and have them really feel like they're living my life with me.

I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

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.

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

I think I take little pieces of inspiration, then kind of do what's real to me and what's going on in my life or what I observe from other people's experiences and hope other people connect with it, too.

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never been heard before. Somebody who'd never had the nerve to speak up before. I felt: 'I wanna meet these people.' Which is unusual for me: I don't usually want to meet the people who are making music that I like. But they sounded interesting.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

You don't have a connection to your fans if they don't have a connection to you and the music.

I'm grateful that as part of the Ernie Ball family, I'm able to connect with my fans in such a meaningful way and hopefully inspire guitar players to up their game!

When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

I always think of myself as an audience first. If I like something, my assumption is that others, too, will like it.