Tom Anderson Quotes

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'

Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had a bird chest, I was a singer. I've always been like this, and I've gotten better because I've progressed.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

I never set out to be a businessman

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher, since I so admired many of my teachers. And though I loved writing, I did not ever think of myself as a writer.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

I used to be someone.

Everyone goes through their evolution and I go through mine and you go through yours.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.