Mark Foster Quotes
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I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
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My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd say, 'Because I'm a songwriter, not a puppet.' Even if I won and became really successful off a show like that, I'd be miserable.
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That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.
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People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.
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When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.
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I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'
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I don't like to write the same song twice.
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I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.
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I think my inner child wants to take over the world.
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One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
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I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius to pick it up.
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I didn't want to be a soul singer.
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There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
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I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.
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I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.
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If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.
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It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They can't answer you or have a rebuttal.
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Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.
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I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
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If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.
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'Torches' opened a lot of doors. Ultimately, it turned into an experience to be reckoned with.
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Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.
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We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.
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I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.