John Lasseter Quotes

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

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

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is someone who's really angry or out of control.'

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

I feel really held in being vulnerable. That's always been the kind of music that I've gravitated to as well, but to feel really supported by my audience in that is a real privilege.

In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

I think people always respond to real moments.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.