Quotes About Inspiration

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.

I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

Directing at seven-and-a-half months pregnant was lots of fun.

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.