Andra Day Quotes
I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
Quotes to Explore
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
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I like reading. I just hate school.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
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Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
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I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
