Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.
Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.
If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design.
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.
I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.
I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than, like, some statue of a great-great-great grandfather who has no connection to my life.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
