Lisa Stansfield Quotes

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.

There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.

I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous.

It's all about the art. It's not about getting on TV or not getting on TV.

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

When I hear people tell me they love what I do, no matter what the climate is, it makes me want to go harder, because that's what I'm out here fighting for - to get that love. You just want to be appreciated for being you and being the best you.

Be the artist you were born to be.