Katie Melua Quotes

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

Music is such a big part of my life.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.