Rome wasn't built in a day.
Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to. "
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
Come on outside when youʹre done,ʺ I told her. ʺItʹs like the barbecue of the damned. Except. . . thereʹs no grill.
I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.