Javed Ali Quotes

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

I wrote 'Ohio,' and it was really awesome to be able to share that with my fans because a lot of them can relate to not having a parent in their life. It's really one of my favourite songs to sing live.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.