When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I’m an inventor.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I hate the idea of genres.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

My mother did not like children.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Some day I shall be President.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.