Ashthon Jones Quotes

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.