Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Kim Petras
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German musician Kim Petras.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
As I was finding my musical style, I found my personal style as well, and moving from Germany to L.A. was part of that, raiding the secondhand stores in L.A. trying out different beauty themes, finding my love for huge lashes and big, long hair extensions.
I think pop music, for me as a kid, I hated school and ran home to watch Britney Spears videos. I just felt like I could forget about the stuff I didn't like about my life and listen to pop music and escape.
I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.
I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.
I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!
I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.
I love Halloween, and I love spooky stuff. I love horror movies. I love everything creepy, and I've always kind of wanted to do this, just do really dark pop.
To hear my songs at parties is really amazing.
I'm always working with other collaborators.
I love horror movie soundtracks like 'It Follows' or 'Halloween.'
As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.
I don't know - a lot of people think it's a really negative thing to do bubble gum pop, but I love it. I, like, want to own it.
A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.
I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.
I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.
I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.
I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.
I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.
I had this one producer who sent me tracks because he saw my YouTube videos that were popular and got a couple million views.
When I hear heartbreak songs, I always feel like, 'O.K. that's exactly how I feel... I'm not the only person who fell in love like a stupid person.'
I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.
I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna's discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.
I really admire Vivienne Westwood because she always done her own thing. She is eccentric but really great at the same time.
There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.
There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.
Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.
I think an online presence is super important. I find new artists and songs I like on socials or Spotify. It's really how people find you. I don't take posting on socials very seriously though.
Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.
One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which is the dream scenario.
Sitting one seat away from Nicki Minaj at Marc Jacobs left me speechless. I couldn't say anything - and that's the first time that's ever happened to me! We locked eyes for a second, but I was too scared to talk to her. She looked incredible, of course.
I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.
I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.
I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.
People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote songs every single day with whoever I could write songs with.
People started recording my songs. Later, I was offered songwriter contracts. And then, finally, I could take the time to work on my own project. I worked hard for this all by myself.
I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.
It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.
I really feel that my fans have given me a lot of confidence.
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