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
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
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
You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think its sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit. – Lesley Gore
I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dads sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation. – Andy Serkis