Top 30 Cassadee Pope Quotes

It doesn’t bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can understand it. My immediate past is pop-rock, and people don’t know a ton about me as a kid – yet. They will soon.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

Country music tell stories. That’s something that I can relate to.

I’m not trying to claim I’m a country singer, but I do love country music.

I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it’s the right thing to do.

I’m not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It’s just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.

As a songwriter, I’ve always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I’m doing, and I’m happy, and I’m living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

I went the more pop-rock route when I was around my teenage years, actually around 13 years old. I think Avril Lavigne really jump-started that. I heard ‘Complicated,’ and I fell in love, and I’ve loved her ever since.

Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social.

My advice to anyone being picked on for being different or for working towards a dream is to remember it’s never personal. These people don’t actually dislike you at heart. They’re just going through difficult things in their own personal lives.

In the past, I’ve always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there’s a lot of other things that I’ve never written about that people have gone through. I’m still keeping it young and edgy, but I’m definitely putting more of a mainstream twist to it.

My parents are civil, but they don’t keep in touch or hang out or anything. If they’re in the same room together and are around each other, they’re totally fine and act like adults.

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn’t pay attention to country music anymore; I wanted to do more pop rock stuff.

I really love my True Match concealer: it is great if you just want to cover some spots, and you don’t have to cover your whole face. I don’t really like wearing a face full of makeup all the time; I just like covering up the spots that I am a little self-conscious about.

I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren’t there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn’t singing, sometimes twice a day.

When I was 17, my main goal was to be in a band and travel the world. I ended up getting to do that with my old band Hey Monday. I got to see the world and learn how to tour, and the next thing I knew, I was on ‘The Voice.’ So it was just a crazy, crazy ride.

The more people do hear my music, they do realize that I’m being true to myself. So there is that conflict, but I think more and more, people are realizing I’m just being me.

I love country and rock, and I wanted to fuse them together. But I also knew that there were certain elements that needed to still be there to be both country and cater to my old fans.

The ‘Hey Monday’ songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part, I want a simple yet powerful production.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That’s what I wanted for ‘Torn.’

I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn’t like the way I looked without them; it didn’t look like me.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That’s what I call my natural habitat: It’s a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

A few girls would be catty and say that my voice sounded really high, and I sang like a chipmunk, I got a few prank calls about that a few times. But it didn’t really bother me that much. I think I was so focused on music that nothing could break me or get in my way.

There’s something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to me, that I just can’t get enough of.

Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.

I want to sell music, and I want radio to play my songs.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you’re gone for a long time, it’s especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there’s so much going on on the road.

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven’t gone through myself, but I’ve known people to go through them. In the past, I’ve always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there’s a lot of other things that I’ve never written about that people have gone through.

Growing up in Florida was really amazing. I spent most my time at the beach.