Charlotte Ritchie Quotes

It's been an absolute rollercoaster. The things I've done, I didn't even dream of doing or achieving.

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

It's fun when you've opened for someone at a venue, and then years go by, and now you're headlining.

If you were following me since the beginning, you see my journey.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined.

You really notice how you're growing when you go on tour. To be able to tour around the world, and do bigger venues every year, is really, really cool.

Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

My life has always gone step by step.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

I didn't take it seriously myself at the time, but now all of my old teachers are supportive. Even my principal - I sold out the O2 Arena in London, and he came out to see me, which was really cool. I actually put a picture with him on my Instagram, and I think and he's wearing one of my snapbacks.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.