Chris Daughtry Quotes

Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

When I am not recording, I do live shows or am at home catching up on shows which I regularly watch. But there will always be some music around me.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'

I loved being in a band.

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I have done my share of karaoke. There is a karaoke place right around the corner from me, and I have been there maybe 800 of 1,000 days I've been in L.A. A lot of songs I know now because of that place. I dig karaoke and have fun with it.

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.