Kris Allen Quotes

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

My music has always been enough.

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.