Quotes About Inspiration

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.

The Olympics was something amazing for the U.K. in bringing people together and giving the population hope.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.