Daphne Oz Quotes

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.

I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

I found this website, The Experience Project, which has people write first-hand experiences of their life and what they went through. There would be a 75-year-old man who talked about his childhood or a 15-year-old girl who talked about what she is going through right now. It was amazing to read their personal thoughts.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

I'm super excited to have people hear little stories about my life, the lives of my friends, people I know.

I want to share the experiences I've had.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.