Bart Millard Quotes

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I've always wanted to make a record.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

I have these songs that I've been playing for so many years. They're so intimate and close to me. And these are songs that probably a major label would not be interested in - some of them, anyway - interested in putting on a record.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

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.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.