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Record Quotes

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Just before I record, I go buy a few albums to see what people are doing. Whether they have improved any, or whether anything happened. And nothing's really happened. There's a lot of great guitarists and musicians around, but nothing's happening, you know.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.