Mitch Leigh Quotes

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

But the one thing I'll always know is that people don't know what they want until they get it. They didn't know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.

I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.

My family wasn't shocked by my success, but I was. But they just knew I'd do something in entertainment.

With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.

I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's a compliment. That's up to others to say about me. The same way, I would never say I do art. I think art is up to history. It's up to other people to utter that word. So I try to be humble.

I never imagined that I would earn my way into anyone's rafters.

There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.

I want to surprise people with my work every time.

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

First Day Out' just took off under our noses. I was shocked. I was happy. I can't even explain the feeling. It's something I always wanted my whole life.

It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.