Bruno Mars's Quotes

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

I think that success is having fun.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.