Tila Tequila Quotes

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

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 like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

I'm no stranger to making timeless music.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

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 I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.