Patsy Cline Quotes

Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.

It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect - it's like we're making a product.

For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals.

Son of a mustard sandwich, that ends tonight!

I don't want tea, I want justice!

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

I hate this, I want this to stop, how are we supposed to live with this, and how am I supposed to walk away? You’re real and I hate you for it.

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!

I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'