Quotes About Inspiration

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

There's no compromise to me in what I'm doing. I'm trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.

My compulsion is to create things.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

I am a compulsive writer.

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.