Quotes About Aspiration

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

I wanted to be so many different things in the beginning - I wanted to be a rocker, I wanted to be a great songwriter, I wanted to be a great melodic singer.

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I've always wanted to sing and to be an entertainer. After high school, I moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles and started songwriting. But I didn't really get serious until then.

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 want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.

I dreamed of having big moments and having a big role. That obviously came a lot sooner than I thought.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.