Vic Fuentes Quotes

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

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.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

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.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

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

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.

Love stories should be relatable.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

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

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

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