Quotes About Inspiration

I learn from my family. And it's not like I learn from them on the sets only.

From my childhood, I never wanted to do anything else but create music. From my first piano to setting up my studio, all I ever wanted was to give it all my time.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Women are taking the main stage. They are center stage, and they're setting all these records and making history, and I want I be a part of that. I've worked so hard to be a part of that.

That's all that life is really about - setting up the party, talking to people who are like-minded, making something happen and keeping it moving, you know.

All I can do is be myself, do what I do and if people find inspiration then that's great but it's not what I'm setting out to do.

We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I launched NARS with 12 shades of lipsticks, and many, many launches later, I'm still most proud of our lipsticks.

I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I'm into people, especially kids and making sure they have a fair shake and making sure they reach their potential. So that's important to me.

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.