Artist Fulfillment Quotes

I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

Making music is what drives me - not awards, not Internet fame, not even exorbitant amounts of money. My fans call themselves 'Aadeez,' and they are the most loyal lot. I make my music for them. I love them.

Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

Even to be flown out to New York was mind boggling for me, and signing with Columbia was great because they really understood my vision. Of all the labels that I met, they were the ones that really seemed to understand that I was really about the music, the writing, and the lyrics, so it was really fulfilling to sign with them.

I feel rejuvenated every time I perform on stage.

That's why you have the long hours in the studio and on sets: so you can come out and see the fans. To see the smiles you put on people's faces.

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

I can't believe people love my music. It just feels like a dream because that is all I ever wanted.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

Interaction with fans is super important to me. I have the best fans ever. They're always the most creatively charged people. I've saved every single piece of fan mail that I've ever gotten. We have an archive of it and stuff. I think if I can inspire that, then it's like my job is done.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

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

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.