93 Quotes by Gavin DeGraw

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

To me, all I ever want to do is play, and nothing else ever crossed my mind concerning a career. Just playing. Only the execution of the songs.

As I've played for a wider variety of audiences, I've become more concerned with showing them a good time, ... I hope that when they leave, they feel like they got something different, and that it was worth it to come out on their time off, when they have to work the whole rest of the week. Now that I'm on the road all the time, time off is more valuable to me. So I figure I'd better make it worth their time.

That's part of the fun, I guess, is having people excited about seeing you and signing autographs and getting to meet fans and things like that.

I mean, I cut my hair with a pocketknife.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time