Kris Allen quotes:

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

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

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

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

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.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

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

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

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

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

Music has always been a part of my life.

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.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

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.

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. It's got the nature feel.

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

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 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.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

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

I write love songs!

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

I've always wanted to be a dad.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

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.

I love my fans because they're smart, dude.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

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

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding.

I like Mutemath a lot.

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

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

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

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.

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

Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy.

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.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

I love any kind of candy.