Kim Petras Quotes

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

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.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

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.

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

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

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

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

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.