Sarah Brightman Quotes

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.

We need to reinvent ourselves.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.