Ozuna Quotes

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

Whenever I work on a song, my focus is on the listeners who follow my type of music.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

The focus is on melody: If you get it right, and it connects to the mass audience, it doesn't matter if it's a studio album or played on the dance floor.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

For me, it's all about making a song that communicates something to a big crowd, but you still feel like it's authentic to who you are. That's that kind of pop that I hope and wish to do.

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.