Scialfa Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that. — Patti Scialfa

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time. — Patti Scialfa

Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid. — Jon Steele

My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band. — Patti Scialfa

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. — Virginia Woolf

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project. — Patti Scialfa

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact. — Patti Scialfa

You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are. — Patti Scialfa

When I write songs I write for myself ... I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories. — Patti Scialfa

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it. — Patti Scialfa

I don't really sell many records. — Patti Scialfa

There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music. — Patti Scialfa

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way. — Patti Scialfa

Here we are - Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider - We are born Not with purpose, But with potential. — Octavia E. Butler

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did. — Elle Macpherson

She'd been in love with him for a while now. Longer than she wanted to admit. She tried not to think about it, whether he felt the same. Those things - those wishes - were at the bottom of a very, very long and bloody priority list. So — Sarah J. Maas

Bruce Springsteen settled down. He used to run around with lots of women and now all he wants to do is hang out with Patty Scialfa and the kids.
Patty's from Jersey. You don't mess around on Jersey girls. They're too tough. I'm sorry Bubbles, but being from Pennsylvania, you're no match. — Sarah Strohmeyer

All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing. — Patti Scialfa

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job. — Lucinda Williams

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you. — Patti Scialfa

I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me. — Patti Scialfa

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that. — Patti Scialfa

When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely. — Patti Scialfa

In life, there is always something to feel wonderful about. — Debasish Mridha

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters. — Patti Scialfa

We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family. — Patti Scialfa

I like having the space of my own project. — Patti Scialfa

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person ... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest. — Patti Scialfa

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days. — Patti Scialfa

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you? — Patti Scialfa