Gnash Quotes

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

We strive to do stuff that connects with people.

In life, things do not always stay the same. There are certain alchemies that marry together at particular moments in particular places with particular people.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.