Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you're only human.
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'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.
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If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
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The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.
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I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.
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At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.
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I cannot thank the LGBT+ community enough for their support, for their love, for their acceptance, and for the first time in a letter, I am incredibly proud to say that I am gay and have never been happier.
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I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.
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I've tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and trusting the people around us.
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The world is a wheel always turning.
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It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
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I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.
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I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.
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'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.
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I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.
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I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality.
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I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it's like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it's a complete dream come true.
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Being honest to who I am led me to write 'If Our Love Is Wrong,' and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to - human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.
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I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.
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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
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I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.
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It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.
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I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.