Quotes About Inspiration

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

I'd love to open for Bieber. It would be awesome; that would definitely be the crowd I would want to play to.

I always dream about that type of moment. In my head, I always kind of create that scenario, just about, like, some type of winning shot or block that's going to, like, really get the crowd into it.

Sometimes the energy of the crowd also catches on to you.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.

I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

I have a crush on Cate Blanchett.

I still celebrate the day when I first met Shah Rukh Khan. One can't just have a crush on him: he is a person whom you love.

Goldie Hawn was my movie-star crush when I was young.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.