Top 29 Quotes by Vanessa Carlton

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.