Michael J. Willett Quotes

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

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

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.