Sarah Brightman Quotes

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.

Music is something I can control.

I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I use acting to get away from myself and to live in someone else's skin, and I do singing to get inside my own skin. I need them both for my emotional health.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

Let me do me.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.