Quotes About Determination

I will continue making music, whether or not I get opportunities in films. I know I have fans who like to listening to me sing.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

I wasn't a great background singer.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I was probably four when I knew that I wanted to be a singer.

People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

I was always a wannabe 'singer-songwriter' but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my job for nothing. But my friends kept on encouraging me. I kept on writing songs. My first hit was probably my 150th song.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

Critics said I am nasal, but my fans made me hit. So I will not stop singing if critics don't like me.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We're going to fight and grind every single pitch and try and do anything we can to help win games.

No fear - that's my approach every single time I'm on the ice.