Alison Moyet Quotes

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

I always want to play the songs that people want to hear.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic.

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it, but on the other hand, I just really want the audience to like it.

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.