Quotes About Inspiration

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works.

I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I've heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She's got it all, really, and I think she's made interesting, bold choices in her work.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.

Having Dierks Bentley on a song is one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to experience. For one, him agreeing to do a song with me but two, getting to share that moment in the studio.

Working with Dolly Parton was one of the coolest experiences of my life.

I enjoyed my time working with Mae Young; she was one of the coolest, most respected people that I ever met in the industry.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

When I was younger, I used to always think making it to the NBA would be the coolest thing in the world. I'd dream about it every day. But as you progress and you attain that goal, then you realize the coolest thing is the effect you can have on people, and kids especially.

That's where I got my passion for the game, watching the WNBA on TV. Cynthia Cooper, Raise the Roof, We Got Next, I was into all of it.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

As a kid, I always thought of being a cop or an army man.

The loss of my dad gave me a lot of inspiration because sometimes I stop and think, 'Would everybody have done the same thing that I did?' It was a very tough thing to cope with. I only went home for less than 24 hours.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

Me just putting on whatever I want to wear today, people find confidence in that. But to me, I'm just coping.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.