Gloria Emerson Quotes

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

I only make films when I have something to say.

I just wrote what I wanted to be reading.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.