Quotes About Persistence

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

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.

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.

Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.

Yeah 100 per cent, I feel like I've been trying to crack the music industry now for a long time and it's been hard crossing over from reality to doing music.

I'm doing a music video for a group called 'Die Antwoord.' That's fun, but yeah, I'm trying to get a live-action film off the ground, and that could take anywhere from a few months to the rest of my life.

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.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.

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

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

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

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

See, I'm not a very good 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?

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.