Quotes About Inspiration

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I want to show girl power.

For me, education was power.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.