Quotes About Inspiration

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.

There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.

I'd always do bits on street corners like Richard Pryor's Mudbone character. And my friends kept telling me, You could make money doing that.'

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn't be right for me.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Of all the people I've ever met that I got a bit tongue-tied around was Chris Moyles. And it was just down the corridor at Radio X. I grew up listening to him, in the car on the way to school, and that voice, you feel like you wake up with him.

Having my name on a cosmetics line has always been a dream, one I'm excited to share.