Quotes from Kris Allen

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I am a huge sports fan.

I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we're dying

When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.