Imogen Heap Quotes

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

I'm a songwriter.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I don't intend to stop making music.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.