Tink Quotes

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.

Me and Matt Terry would love to record music together, maybe something on YouTube to our fans.

We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.

As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.