Quotes About Expression

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

I see music as a lifetime affair.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

I want to make music to lift the people.

Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

I've always liked to draw.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

I liked to play dress-up.

I never liked making albums.