Top 33 Rachel Platten Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.

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

There’s a joy I think people feel from… my performance.

I wrote ‘Fight Song’ as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

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

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.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt ‘very understood.’

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

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 refuse to dress ‘hot’ for Halloween, ’cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you’ve ever written, but they count because they’re you’re first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

‘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.

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

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

Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can’t resist.

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.

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

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since ‘Be Here.’ I learned to sing with all of my body.

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

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.

I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I’ve been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, ‘Whoa, man, some day.’

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 think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

I’m a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

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 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 like to be supportive and a role model.

My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I’ve received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their ‘Fight Song’ stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.