Alice Merton Quotes

I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I've never been on the cover of 'Tiger Beat' magazine, let's put it that way. But that's not why you go see Primus. You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.