Gareth Gates Quotes

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

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 knew I always wanted to sing.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.'

I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.