Quotes About Inspiration

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

One of my favorite album covers is Miguel's 'Wildheart.'

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.

I love doing covers.

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

'Airlift' changed a lot of things for me. It is a difficult film to make hit songs. So when I was able to crack that, I felt nice.

No matter what happens in the future, I still want to be like Carlin, like Dangerfield where I can hit a stage when I'm 85 and still here people cracking up.