Jason Mraz

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. __t seems all the negativity in the world doesn__ affect you,_ he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It__ all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine.

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide,But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line

Frustration and Love can__ exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

I won't give up on us

It__ strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what__ real and what__ imaginary.

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

I think there__ no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It__ like inventing something, but it__ invisible, you know? It__ weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that__ the joy. It__ like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they__e your kids.

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can__ work for you if you don__ show up as you.

I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down.- Sleeping to Dream

Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn__ have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.