Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.