Frankie Ballard Quotes

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

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'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

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.

The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

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.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.