Robert B. Weide Quotes

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

As I've gotten older, I've started to find my voice.

When I launched my channel, I felt I was ready to do this. It's not that I had learnt everything - because as an artiste you never stop learning, but I was ready to put out my voice in the world.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.