Quotes About Purpose

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

When you're young, it's hard to see the reality behind such a demanding career, but I loved it, and I couldn't see myself doing anything else. So in my mind, from the minute I had to seriously start thinking about my future, I knew musical theatre was it for me.

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

I think the three words that describe my journey are gratitude, original and always being focused.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

I kind of feel the career chose me. My motto has always been, 'Go where I'm wanted.'

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong.

I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

I'm going to do what feeds my soul.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

I think I was born out of my time.

Even if I just change one kid's life in my time on Earth, my life is complete. I'll be happy with that. I'll be satisfied with that.

Money comes and goes. But when you look back on your career, you have be able to answer to yourself, 'Did I make the most of my time on earth?'

I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.