Kris Allen Quotes

The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I love any kind of candy.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

I like Mutemath a lot.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.

I've always wanted to be a dad.

I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding.

I've always been a procrastinator.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

I love my fans because they're smart, dude.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

I am a huge sports fan.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying