David Archuleta Quotes & Sayings

“Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.”

“It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.”

“My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who's helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.”

“It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.”

“I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.”

“My whole family has been such a great support, and they're the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.”

“I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?”

“What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.”

“I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.”

“Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.”