Quotes About Inspiration

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

Love and the imagination are connected.

I feel connected to God when I'm out there performing.

There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting to the feelings and the heart and the people you're with.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice.

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

The fans have been an enormous influence on my career. Playing shows around the world and connecting with them is such a big inspiration in my life.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.