Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Really, I am just a guy who likes his profession and travelling and good food, and that is it. I'm no different from you or anyone else.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else, and I don't have great language, highfalutin' language - I'm very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, 'Oh, that's me.'

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'

I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.

In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.

I hope I can just be a regular human being to people.

I love playing the common man.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.