Khloe Kardashian Quotes

I just want people to hear me and my story.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.

It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.

There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I really create everything I do from the heart.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.