Quotes About Persistence

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job.

New York is really where my career somewhat started.

When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there.

At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

And no matter what, at the end of the day whether it's with the Pacers or somewhere else, I'm going to continue to succeed.

It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni' is a cult classic and also one of my favourite songs from a Yash Chopra movie. The song is about never giving up on one's love and I connected instantly with it when I first heard it.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

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

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

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.

People started recording my songs. Later, I was offered songwriter contracts. And then, finally, I could take the time to work on my own project. I worked hard for this all by myself.

We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.