Quotes by Meghan Trainor

About Meghan Trainor:

Meghan Elizabeth Trainor is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. She released three independent albums before signing with Epic Records and achieving her breakthrough in 2014 with the single "All About That Bass". The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Trainor's second single, "Lips Are Movin", peaked at number four. Her EP, Title debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 in September 2014, and her full-length 2015 album, also named Title, debuted at number one.
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At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

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I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and tha...

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I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.

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I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until t...

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In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.

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Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

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A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

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I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

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With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.

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My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

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Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.

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I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.

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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

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I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

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Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember loo...

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All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

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I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

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I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

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Author Bio

  • NameMeghan Trainor
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
  • BornDecember 22, 1993
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Record Producer; Musician; Songwriter; Composer