Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more. "
Elle King
Me
Up
Appreciate
Related Quotes:
" I write a lot about myself. "
Elle King
Lot
Write
About
" You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed. "
Elle King
Be Nice
People
Nice
" I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun. "
Elle King
Afraid
Used
Fun
" My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom's last name. I took my mom's last name since I was 18. "
Elle King
Always
Boy
King
" Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing. "
Elle King
Shy
Sometimes
Quiet
" You never know which Elle you're going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods. "
Elle King
See
Wake Up
Day
" I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met. "
Elle King
Born
Vegas
Three
" I have a really supportive, great group of friends, and we all push each other. They come to my shows, I go to their premieres; it's wonderful. "
Elle King
Wonderful
Great
Friends
" I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music. "
Elle King
Think
You
Loving
" I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart. "
Elle King
Home
Heart
Guy
" I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know? "
Elle King
White
You
Know
" My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton! "
Elle King
Dream
Dolly Parton
Duet
" I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit. "
Elle King
Doing
Laugh
Funny
" I'm a water baby to no end. "
Elle King
Baby
Water
End
" I'm actually a barefoot girl. "
Elle King
Girl
Actually
Barefoot
" I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. "
Elle King
Learn
Old
Started
" I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed. "
Elle King
Myself
School
Good
" As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right. "
Elle King
Get
Nothing
Relationships
" I think the best music is honest music. "
Elle King
I Think
Best
Think
" I'm a really good friend; I'm terrible to date. "
Elle King
Friend
Good
Really
" I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun! "
Elle King
Know
Me
Play
" Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you're going to be confident. "
Elle King
Enough
Long
You
" I just love playing live. "
Elle King
Live
Playing
Love
" I have over 35 tattoos. "
Elle King
Over
Tattoos
" I fall in love fast, and I fall out of love even faster. "
Elle King
Faster
Out
Fall
" My mom says I was born screaming. "
Elle King
I Was Born
Born
Screaming
" I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in. "
Elle King
Beautiful
Mother
Famous
" I don't like people who are just takers. "
Elle King
Like
People
Takers
" I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs. "
Elle King
Rock
Rock And Roll
Love
" I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys. "
Elle King
I Can
Live
My Life