Ashley Roberts Quotes

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

I'm going to continue the dancing because it really was an inspiration; it changed my life.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.

I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.