"When your parents regulate everything you hear..." - Quote by Sza
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
More by Sza
“Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.”
“I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I'm super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.”
“I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.”
More on Creativity
“You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.”
“Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.”
“Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.”
More on Childhood
“Oh I don’t wanna grow up, wish I’d never grown upIt could still be simple.”
“I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.”
“Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.”