Lisa Ann Walter Quotes

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

It stresses me out if I mess up.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I have to prove myself five times over.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.