Austin Mahone Quotes

My favorite part of touring is when I see girls that I've been talking to on my site and then meeting them in person. I can't believe how well the fans get along together. Everyone just seems to be really cool.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

Fans are always going out of their way and doing so much, be it my birthday or any festival or occasion or most of the time nothing at all and there couldn't be a better way than connecting with them personally and giving them access to my world.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

I wrote 'Ohio,' and it was really awesome to be able to share that with my fans because a lot of them can relate to not having a parent in their life. It's really one of my favourite songs to sing live.

The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.

Me and Matt Terry would love to record music together, maybe something on YouTube to our fans.

I'm trying to involve the fans and bring in a crowd where not only do they love boxing but they love me as a person.

I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

But the more that people got to know me and my personality, the more I connected with my fans and made friends, and people got to see more of my life.

I love meeting the fans, and I love shaking hands, and that's what it's all about. It really is.

It's very important for me to try to get to the people. I'm not shy. It's nice to give the fans a little extra, to let them inside.

In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.

People connect to a good bar very personally.

Anybody that wants to take a picture with me I'm more than happy - I'm excited about it. I'm building that personal connection with the fans and keeping it.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

For me, One Direction is the only fandom I've been in, and I made so many friends.

I want to get to know my fans and let them get to know me. Give them an inside look at my life outside of basketball.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

Since I am an avid singer and a lot of my fans want to hear me sing, I thought it will be really nice to sing my songs online so that more people could watch me, and I thought digital is the best way to connect with everyone.