LeAnn Rimes Quotes

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

When I first started to do music, I was kind of doing what I thought people would want me to do.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.

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.

I don't want to do music in a box, like everybody say what I can't do, 'he can't say this.'

I feel like traditional artists feel like everything that they do has to be perfect and touched up, and it has to be about something that would be able to be played on the radio.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song - or as he says, 'putting some balls into it' - isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.