"I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem."

-- Yves Saint Laurent

#Character Quotes #Years Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.”
“And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.”
“Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.”
“My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.”
“Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.”
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
“Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.”
“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.”

Source : "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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