Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. ”

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. ”

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. ”

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. ”

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. ”

Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card. ”

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. ”

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do. ”

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too. ”

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence. ”