Thomas Rhett Quotes

I had written or cowritten eight of the ten songs on 'Beauty and the Beat,' and I had written our biggest hit, 'We Got the Beat.' How was I going to top all of that?

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.

After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.

We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.

I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go through that again.

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, 'God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

The first record blew up and sold really well. 'City of Black & White' didn't sell as well, and that's when you wonder, 'Did I peak already?'