Quotes About Inspiration

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Sensitivity, awareness, and conflict - these have catalysed my creative growth.

It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?

When I was 14, I had no idea who I was, and it was so confusing. So to see strong, confident girls, that I get to be around all the time, it's so amazing. It's reinvigorating for me.

To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.

I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.

I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.