Noah Cyrus Quotes

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

For almost five years on 'Happy Days,' I have had a mom and pop and a brother who give me advice and help me just as my own parents and brothers and sisters do at home.

I have a sister, in particular, who's 13 years older than me. So growing up and watching her - watching her go to work, especially - was hugely influential to me. As the youngest, with a sibling that's a decade older, I had certain things that I would go to her about instead of my mother.

The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

The best advice-giver in my family definitely has to be my mom.

I'd love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don't want them to look on 'American Idol' as the way to become famous.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.

I began working as an assistant since the age of 16 with my father Dabboo Malik, went on to work with composers like Amar Mohile, Salim-Sulaiman, Pritam Da, and Sandeep Chowta.

I wouldn't be where I am without my dad.

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

My father has never influenced the strategy anywhere.

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

My mother wanted my sister and me to live a normal life. I always picked friends who weren't impressed with my family ties.