Universal Appeal Quotes

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

You're not just making music for your personal use no more, just making music for your homies around you; you're making music for people around the world. Kids in Alaska - like, you're making music for everybody. When I make music, I just think on a larger scale.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Just like multiplex theatres, the industry had become divided, making films that alienated one kind of audience or another. It was really time to come out of the niche and make something that, at a certain level, clicked with everyone. 'Wanted' did just that. It opened the gates once more.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Art is for everybody.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.