Quotes About Inspiration

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment.

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.

You never come home depressed from a cartoon job.

If I don't have projects going on, I get depressed.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened in my life if I didn't have music.

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our racial enlightenment.

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

Every day, I thanked my lucky stars that I got to work with Gillian Jacobs, who is such an amazing actor and brings so much depth to everything that we do.