A.A. Allen Quotes

I've always wanted to be a dad.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

I love any kind of candy.

I like Mutemath a lot.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

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

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

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

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

The Mail Online is like carbs - you know you shouldn't but you do. Probably two or three times a day.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

I am a weapon of massive consumption

I like them old and rich.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I want to go to the gym every day otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose.

If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.

Yeah, I was a florist. I went to floristry school.