Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish...
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I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe in me. They respect my opinion. At least I have an opinion, and I'm not trying to play...
I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.
I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.
I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'
I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But...
Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.
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Others touch on early body-image pressures absorbed from family members, showing the personal cost of comparison at a young age. See also I Am Quotes and Like Quotes for related first-person perspectives.
