Kris Allen's Quotes

Music has always been a part of my life.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.

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.

When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.

Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.

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

I am a huge sports fan.

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

I like Mutemath a lot.

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

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

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.