Adam Rich Quotes

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

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.

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

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Music has influenced my life and is one of the most treasured things for me. It speaks a universal language and for me, it is extremely important to stay connected to it.

My song titles are always left-field or mean a lot to me.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

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.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.