Quotes About Passion

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

That's what I do: I'm a singer. I have many arrangers, but I usually conduct for myself.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, but I did not confide in my parents.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.

I like conflict in songs.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

All the pain, suffering, love, passion, and conflict have made me what I am.

I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing.

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.