Quotes by category:My Own

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

own small my-own way

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

own free myself my-own

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

myself future my-own time

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

look my-own learning way

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

me my-own music writing

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing.

king my-own book son

I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.

alone my-own serious time

When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.

boy my-own music team

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

own better foundation my-own

At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.

own job start my-own

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.

own always my-own music

No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.

own story my-own writing

Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights movement thought they would do me harm over the years by disassociating themselves from me. Well, nothing in the world was more to my advantage. I was never one of them... I had my own divine mission.

thought me my-own world

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

some own my-own voice

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

skin someone me my-own

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

clothes my-own music sometimes

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a... by Jane Gardam

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

copy my-own style poor

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

own child my-own way

I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.

person me my-own perfect

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me. by Jennifer Nettles

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

Jennifer Nettles

own how me my-own