Quotes About Inspiration

I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I was like, 'I've got to watch some more of these.' And yeah, I watched 'E.T.,' which I absolutely love. I'm not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

I've been to Cuba many times.

I've never met Mr. Mark Cuban, but I tell people that I thank him more than life itself.

I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

I went to culinary school to eat.

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Don't wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

We like to learn about cultures when we make movies.

I've always seen the cup as half-full.