sometimes i get down on myself because i don’t have a ‘purpose’, but then every so often something will happen like a girl in the restroom asking me if i can help her zip up her dress, or my mom asking me if i can housesit and take care of the cat while she’s on a trip, or my younger sister will ask if i can help her style her hair for a dance and it’s like…

i don’t know how to explain it, exactly, i guess it’s like ‘maybe we don’t all need to be heroes’.  

arianagrandre:

Everyone around here heard it and was like, “It’s a cool record, but you know it’s not going to be on the radio, right?” And I was like, “Yeah. I told [record executive] Jimmy [Iovine] when I signed, ‘If you want to sign me, this is all it’s ever going to be.’” I was just so committed to making music because I believe in what I do. All I had to do was not quit.