Alice Merton Quotes

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.

I don't think I will be able act; I am not talented in that area.

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

When I was younger, I definitely wish I had felt more... I just wish I had started actually putting out my music earlier because I didn't do it until I graduated high school and felt like I was leaving. That's mostly because I have never liked my voice a lot or been like a particularly great singer.

My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

All I've really been working on since I was a kid is music, but sometimes I feel like I'm an imposter or something.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I'm never confident about anything, especially with law.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.