Loren Gray Quotes

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

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.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.