Quotes About Inspiration

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

Every little girl's dream, every little boy's dream is to play at Wembley, so for a girl to do it and collect the 100th cap there was just a massive achievement. So, I think that's when it really hit me.

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved the Highwaymen. I collected all that stuff.

I like special directors, and I've collected a few.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

I have this huge dossier on sports that I had collected over 10 years. Every human interest story has been cut out and filed away.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

I want to have my own line and collection.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

I've always had this idea that I would love to do a Boston-inspired collection, whether it's for my own line or whether it's for Gant.

My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection.

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.

I make music in terms of collections.

I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts we are actually chipping away at our collective soul.