Jon Crosby Quotes

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

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.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

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

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

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.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

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.

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.