List of Skylar Grey Quotes

I Always Knew I Wanted To Do Music, But It Took Me A Long Time To Figure Out How To Exactly Do That. With My First Record Deal, Everything Kinda Fell Apart. I Wasn't Ready For It, I Didn't Know How To Handle The Business Side At All. I Thought As Soon As I Got A Record Deal, Everything Would Fall Into Place And I Wouldn't Have To Really Do Any Work Anymore. I Could Just Make Music, And Be Successful. Well That Was Not The Case And Everything Fell Apart For A Period Of Time.

I Feel Like D.c. Is One Of The Places In America That Really Holds On To History. The Monuments Inspire Me, Especially At Night.

It's Very Easy To Fall Back Unto My Old Ways When I'm Working A Lot. It's Important For Me To Continue To Find Solitude And Peace In Nature And Escape The City And The Industry As Much As Possible. That's Where I Reconnect And Remind Myself What I Learned In That Time In The Woods When I Was Isolated And I Recharge Myself. If I Don't Have That, It Would Be Really Easy For Me To Fall Apart Again.

I Have A Tattoo On My Foot That Says 'it's A Whale' In Japanese, Because Japanese People Kill Whales. My Stuffed Whale Was Like Most Children's Teddy Bear. I Took It With Me Everywhere. I Slept With It. I Couldn't Live Without My Whale.

I Moved Out To L.a. When I Was 17, Dropped Out Of High School, And Pursued A Career In Music.

I'm A Shy Person, So I Get Really Nervous Going Into Interviews.

I Lived In A Cabin In The Woods In Oregon, And I'd Basically Given Up On The Music Industry For An Indefinite Amount Of Time. And While I Was Out There, I Came Up With A Very Specific Vision Of What I Wanted My Music To Sound Like.

Alex [da Kid] Does Have Diversity, Not Just In What He Produces, But What He Hears. He Has This Knack For Finding Talented People.

I Played Trumpet In School Once Because I Joined Band Because A Cute Boy Played Trumpet Too. And I Was Really Bad At Trumpet.

I Don't Think I Have Changed My Personality As Much As I Have Evolved As A Human. Before The Name Change, I Was Very Timid, Very Self-conscious. Just Not Very Confident. When I Changed My Name, It Came From A Place Of Power.

I Actually Quit Music And I Thought Maybe I Chose The Wrong Career. But, I Isolated Myself In A Cabin In The Woods For A While And That's Where I Fell Back In Love With Music. Just Being Isolated Out There, Eliminating All These Opinions That I Endured During My Time In La And The Music Industry, All The Rejection, It Was Really Hard On Me And My Creativity. So By Isolating Myself In The Wilderness, I Was Able To Fall Back In Love With Music. It Was Always Ingrained In Me, Always In My Blood, But I Just Lost It For A Minute.

Honestly, I Don't Recommend Anyone Get Into Music. If You Have Something Else That You're Good At, Do That Instead. This Is A Really Tough World To Live In.