Orianthi Quotes

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

I would say that for me while growing up, music was my best friend in many ways, and I hope my music can do that for others, to make them feel less alone.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.