Quotes About Inspiration

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

I plan to establish my own academy.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Planes do not inspire me.

I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to study the planes parked there.