Lorde Quotes

I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being a father and having kids and knowing that connection is true love. Making a movie is love.

Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

My children are my whole life.

You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I have put my heart and soul in 'Baaz.'

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

Fostering is not for the faint of heart.

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.

The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

[Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. [...] I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.