Chris Daughtry Quotes

I'm always forming bands.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

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.

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

I've been watching 'American Idol' half my life, and I wanted to audition since I was 8.

I love singing fun songs; I've built a career on them.

Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.

I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.

One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.

I joined Alcatrazz a month after I recorded 'Steeler.' The big difference between Steeler and Alcatrazz is that in Alcatrazz, I wrote the songs. When I went to the Alcatrazz audition, they had no songs and no direction. They also had a questionable drummer.

I think I'm gonna do more songs on my own.

Most of all, I want to be known as Barbi Benton, the singer, not as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.