Jonathan Groff Quotes

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

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.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

I like to write about lots of things in real life that people can relate to, that people can I guess connect with and the fans could understand what I'm talking about.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

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.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I love relatable stories.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

I just look for characters I can relate to.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

A lot of people can relate to me.