A biography for Kim Petrashasn’t been written yet.
“Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.”
“One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which is the dream scenario.”
“A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.”
“There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.”
“Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.”
“Sitting one seat away from Nicki Minaj at Marc Jacobs left me speechless. I couldn't say anything - and that's the first time that's ever happened to me! We locked eyes for a second, but I was too scared to talk to her. She looked incredible, of course.”
“I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.”
“I love horror movie soundtracks like 'It Follows' or 'Halloween.'”
“I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.”
“I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!”
“I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.”
“I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna's discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.”
“I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.”
“People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote songs every single day with whoever I could write songs with.”
“I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.”
“I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.”
“I think pop music, for me as a kid, I hated school and ran home to watch Britney Spears videos. I just felt like I could forget about the stuff I didn't like about my life and listen to pop music and escape.”
“I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.”