Thomas Rhett Quotes

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I want to be a country singer more than anything in the world.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

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.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

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.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

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

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.