A biography for Alison Sudolhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't like to yell.”
“There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.”
“I really listened to a lot of oldies. I didn't really listen to anything that was modern until I was 11 or 12.”
“I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.”
“I'm learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.”
“I love the clean elegance of cream and black.”
“Los Angeles has got its own distinct feel, and it's very contrary to the music that I write and the pictures I see in my head: no evergreens, no fog, no rain days.”
“We are living in a process of pursuit. But sometimes we get so focused on trying to get where we're going and we forget that this is life, too. We're living it right now.”
“I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had to build a geodesic dome out of toothpicks, and mine came out looking like an alien space station. I threw it against a wall and gave up.”
“I think I've seen 'Sleepless in Seattle' like 40 times... I've seen 'Harold and Maude' like 50 times probably.”
“I feel like for me my happiest moments are tinged with the awareness that there's sadness on the flipside of the coin.”
“I found movies to be such a beautiful escape.”
“I won't do the same thing over and over again.”
“I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.”
“I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was determined to make those two work together, so I just worked at it until I started making stuff that sounded like music.”
“I was a teenager with a lot of strangeness in me that I didn't know how to express. I was trying hard on the outside to be very normal and fit in, but inside I was a big weirdo. Thank God that little weirdo persisted, otherwise I would be so sad.”
“Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.”
“If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically.”
“How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?”
“Whether it's a photograph or a piece of clothing, a leather bag or a film, I tend to gravitate towards simple, beautifully made, quietly lovely things. They make me happy.”