Top 22 Elle King Quotes

I’m really not good at anything else, so if I don’t make it as a musician, I’ll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.

I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

Sometimes I’m really funny, sometimes I’m quiet, sometimes I’m shy, but I’m constantly changing.

I’m a water baby to no end.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It’s just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That’s how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an ‘I told you so.’ Moms are usually right. You’re wrong if you don’t think that they’ve done what we’re doing, because they have.

I write a lot about myself.

I have a really supportive, great group of friends, and we all push each other. They come to my shows, I go to their premieres; it’s wonderful.

You never know which Elle you’re going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods.

I’m actually a barefoot girl.

I’m obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It’s the white trash in me, you know?

My mom says I was born screaming.

I have over 35 tattoos.

I used to be afraid to use the word ‘pop’ to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there’s some fun.

I’m a really good friend; I’m terrible to date.

I just love playing live.

I don’t like people who are just takers.

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.

I think the best music is honest music.