#elf

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#arrange #being #club #fairly #good

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#fashion #i #i can #i love #love

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#been #constant #deal #humanity #i

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#father #frightened #him #house #i

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it. ↗

— Terri Clark

#album #artist #did #express #few

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are. ↗

— Terri Clark

#completely #deep #deep inside #inside #reaching

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#adopted #again #aunt #because #being

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. ↗

— Anthony Collins

#belief #believe #certain #except #i

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#back #found #front #head #himself

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt