"I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music." ― Jason Mraz Topic(s): Music More From Jason Mraz "Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all." "Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness." "A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one’s family, a love for where one’s really from." More In Music "Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."― Kathryn Bigelow "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."― Joseph Addison "The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will."― Jennifer Lopez