Rachel Platten Quotes

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

I love ... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

I like to be supportive and a role model.

I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there ... realizing another dream.

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.