Rachel Riley Quotes

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.