Jake Shears Quotes

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.

Films should be for everybody.

I know of no group or class that we do not reach—and we please none.

I want people to listen to my music and everyone to feel included, and I think it's kind of working because all my audiences are always so colorful.

Guy's guys are of course welcome! But my audience runs the spectrum of humanity. There's something for everyone!

Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art that only appeals to people in a certain age range.

Our mandate is to sing for everyone. We don't just sing for one group or sing one genre... This is everybody's choir.

A good song always has to do with the person representing it - how they're feeling in that moment - but I think my songs don't need to be exclusive in terms of gender or race or that kind of thing.

When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies; I want guys to come, too!

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.

I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.

Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.

Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart.

As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.