My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.
My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.