Quotes about "Inspiration & Motivation"

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. ”

There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience. ”

I really have the American dream licked. ”

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. ”

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage. ”

I'm totally comfortable with taking some risk, but as long as it's doctrinated in something that makes sense. ”

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day. ”

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. ”

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! ”

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling. ”