Orianthi Quotes

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

The end game is always a hit song.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

I don't think I could make a pop album.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

I wanted to be the country version of Stevie Nicks, but before you knew it, I was heading in a pop direction, touring the world, having No. 1 singles, and loving every minute of it.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.