I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together. I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.

Vanessa Carlton

Categorized in : Song Writing Hard Work

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

Vanessa Carlton

arms heart men

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

Vanessa Carlton

couple journey song

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

Vanessa Carlton

wells stubborn knows

I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.

Vanessa Carlton

lovely careers house

You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.

Vanessa Carlton

woods healthy

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

Vanessa Carlton

lucky hard-work together

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.

Vanessa Carlton

drivers wells piano

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Vanessa Carlton

rocks writing song

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

Vanessa Carlton

riding horse reality

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

Vanessa Carlton

home travel fall

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

Vanessa Carlton

sexy people thinking

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.

Vanessa Carlton

live-your-life crazy nuts

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

Vanessa Carlton

ballet easy world

I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.

Vanessa Carlton

struggle men people

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Vanessa Carlton

emotional play song

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

Vanessa Carlton

rocks dark song

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

Vanessa Carlton

choices hero lying

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

Vanessa Carlton

ambitious cities journey

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

Vanessa Carlton

albums giving people

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

Vanessa Carlton

1960s different world