I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasnt working. – Lesley Gore
Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you dont get through. – Lesley Gore
I dont know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. – Lesley Gore
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a mans world. Fortunately hes a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, hes a capable human being and has great communication skills. – Lesley Gore
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair