Trace Cyrus Quotes

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

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.