Tiffany Darwish Quotes

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

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

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

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

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.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

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.

My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

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