Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.