JoJo Quotes

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I wanted to fly when I was little.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

When you're a little girl, living your dreams, even tiny little stages in someone's backyard are amazing.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

When you're growing up, what it's really all about is playing so well the crowd get into it, and the roars you hear are those that you are creating.