Daya Quotes

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

I miss my singing career very much.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.