Elena Tonra Quotes

#1. Her words slice me open. I'm not that bad. No, I'm not kittens and bunnies, but I'm not that bad.

Katie McGarry

#2. At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually - I regret not doing that.

Elena Tonra

#3. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.

Elena Tonra

#5. I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like an old lady for various reasons. I have a yearning to live out my childhood and teenage years and have a bit more fun than I actually did.

Elena Tonra

#6. Your career is your business.

Auliq Ice

#7. It's not disappearing in that sense, and it's not disappearing in an artistic sense - trying to make something beautiful that means something. If it's something beautiful that means something just to us, that's enough.

Elena Tonra

#8. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

#9. It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

Chris Gerdes

#10. Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't want to overthink anything too much - we just wanted to, writing-wise, chuck out as many ideas as possible.

Elena Tonra

#11. Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

Elena Tonra

#12. I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

Elena Tonra

#13. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Robert Lloyd

#14. When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

Jay Carney

#15. She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

Lynsay Sands

#16. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

Vanessa Paradis

#17. I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.

Elena Tonra

#18. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

Elena Tonra

#19. There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand.

Elena Tonra

#20. President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#21. Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

Bob Marley