Quotes About Inspiration

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

Which actress wouldn't want to work with Vishal Bharadwaj? I have worked with him before and I really like his sensibility.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

Science and fun cannot be separated.