Lou Doillon Quotes

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

To just to get up on stage and sing every night at 9 or 10 years old was unbelievable to me. It wasn't that I was getting paid; it was that I was getting paid to do what I like to do.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

Making dance music was one of the best things I did in my life. I traveled the world; I met the most amazing fans. I got a lot of respect from doing it.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I moonlight as a singer.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.