Ryan Hurd Quotes

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'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

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

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

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

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

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