Quotes About Determination

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn't find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can't get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself.

I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any way I could.

I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

I had no backup plan. I wanted to have a music career since I was 5 years old. I know that might be hard to believe, but it's true.

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it's possible in Louisville, and it's possible anywhere. You just have to believe.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

My music video for 'Go Fish' is really fun. Just like the card game, if you're dealt a crappy hand, play it the best you can and you can always pick another card and try again. It's my little message.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

I think I always told myself I would audition for the top musical theater schools, and if I didn't get into one of my top five schools, that would be my sign.

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.' And whenever I'd get auditions for TV, I'd be like, 'Okay, whatever. I've got a lisp, so they're not going to take me.' And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.

I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.

I can remember arguing for two days with Mark Saunders about 'Strugglin'.' He said: 'This can't work. It's not musically correct.' And I said: 'If I can hear it in my brain you can't tell me it can't work.'

I love musicals; I just couldn't book one to save my life.

I want to say something very clearly. I understand that I'm a self-confident person who might come off with the wrong attitude sometimes, but I don't mean to. I just believe in certain things, and I know exactly what I want. I've always sacrificed things in order to become the best musician I could be.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.