Ozuna Quotes

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

To be honest, I'm always really interested when people say they can relate to our songs. On the first album, that wasn't something I'd ever anticipated or thought about.

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

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.'

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

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.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.