Katherine Jenkins Quotes

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.