Quotes About Inspiration

Freedom is a powerful and beautiful thing.

All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

I want to show beautiful things and share them with everyone.

All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

I really respect Samantha Bee.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.