Estelle Quotes

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.

When I'm writing music, I'm not acting it out - it's all me. I feel that my responsibility is to be truthful about myself, first and foremost. I'm not going to sing things I don't believe in no matter who is benefitting from it.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.