Skylar Grey famous quotes

03-24-2025

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.
-- Skylar Grey

#Struggle #Years #Long
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.
-- Skylar Grey

#Oregon #Vision #Cabins
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
-- Skylar Grey

#Kids #Diversity #People
One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.
-- Skylar Grey

#Bored #Too Much #Fans
I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.
-- Skylar Grey

#Writing #Past #Hindsight
Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.
-- Skylar Grey

#Powerful #Hard Times #Feelings
I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
-- Skylar Grey

#Creative #Levels #Firsts
I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.
-- Skylar Grey

#Insecurity #Needs #Flaws
Don't Look Downâ€ is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. â€œI learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,â€ Grey remembers. â€œI have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
-- Skylar Grey

#Mom #Mother #Talking
My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
-- Skylar Grey

#Mom #Coal #Grapefruit
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
-- Skylar Grey

#Interviews #Shy #Nervous
But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of liesâ€¦
-- Skylar Grey

#Lying #Thinking #Bed
Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.
-- Skylar Grey

#Real #California #Giving
Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
-- Skylar Grey

#Song #Writing #Goal
I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.
-- Skylar Grey

#Mom #New York #Doors
I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.
-- Skylar Grey

#Fall #Hard Work #Hands
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.
-- Skylar Grey

#Tattoo #Children #Whales
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.
-- Skylar Grey

#World #Tough #Honestly
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
-- Skylar Grey

#Cute #School #Boys
Expectations are an evil thing.
-- Skylar Grey

#Evil #Expectations
Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.
-- Skylar Grey

#Blessing #Artist #Scary
I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.
-- Skylar Grey

#Dark #Thinking #People
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
-- Skylar Grey

#School #Careers #High School

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