I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Albert Brooks

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon van der Meer

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Josh Jenkins

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

W. H. Auden

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Charles Kennedy