Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Lauren Alaina
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lauren Alaina.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.
No matter what decision I make, I want people to know that there's a reason I made it, and it's because it was something I felt like needed to happen. I don't want people to think that I've just gone crazy.
Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.
To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?
He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.
I don't like fake people.
As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.
When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.
I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.
There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.
I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.
I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.
I really feel like I found myself, and when I found myself, I found the music along with it.
I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.
It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.
It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.
There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious.
I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!
My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.
I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.
I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who has an eating disorder, and that's why she looks the way she looks.
I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
My dad didn't know that I had an eating disorder. He had no idea, so that was weird. I was in an interview and just said it accidentally. I called my dad because I remember thinking, 'My dad does not know that,' and he was surprised. I think he understood, though.
My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
I always put God first.
I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.
I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.
I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.
I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.
I like having curves. Curves are in!
I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.
There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people.
I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.
I don't take myself too seriously, or I at least try not to, and I want to encourage other people to live that way because it's a much better way to go about your life.
A lot of my fans are young women that are my age. We're all going through the same problems at the same time, so I just tried to be really honest with that.
I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.
I love acting. I want to act as much as I can without interfering with the music.
Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.
Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.
I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.
People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy.
I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.
My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.
You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.
I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now.
I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.
I don't think I'm being forced to grow up too fast; I would rather people treat me like an adult.
It is a horrible feeling to have people bashing you online.
I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.
I think everyone needs to mind their own business.
I won't change who I am for anything.
I don't want to be the young girl that people say, 'Man, that Lauren Alaina girl, she's got a lot of talent, but she's lost her mind.' I don't ever want that to be me - ever.
I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.
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