Esther Forbes Quotes

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

My trade and art is to live.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.