I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

Frustration and Love can't 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.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability -- because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

And when you're needing your space to do some navigating...I' ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find.