Christina Perri Quotes
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
Quotes to Explore
-
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
-
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
-
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
-
Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
-
For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
-
I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
-
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
-
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
-
I get homesick.
-
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
-
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
-
I eat a lot of chocolate.
-
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
-
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
-
I do not like violence.
-
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
-
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.
-
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
-
So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
-
If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
-
My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
-
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
