Quotes About Development

For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

I feel like I needed to grow up. I needed to grow up as a songwriter. I needed to grow up as a singer, a performer. I needed to grow up as a woman.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Growing up, I became a huge fan of Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins. That's where I really started developing my songwriting skills on a personal level.

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.

I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another label. Then I got picked up by Sony publishing. So I was writing professionally from 16 to 18. Then I started making my own records.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.