Jasmine Cephas Jones Quotes

For me, it's about touching as many people as I can and helping as many people as I can with my music.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

I think I'm like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden - I don't know what it was - it started to put me in positions to do great things.

I realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.

Music changed my life in so many ways.

People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.

I want to move people.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.

I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.