Musician Quotes

I need to be able to rock out.

I moonlight as a singer.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I grew up with British rock.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Focus on your music and not technology.

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

I think all my videos suck.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.