Lisa Stansfield Quotes

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.