Quotes About Inspiration

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

Saturday Night Takeaway' is the show we always wanted to make. It's a direct descendant of 'Game For A Laugh' and 'Noel's House Party' and 'Russ Abbot's Madhouse,' and they're all shows we grew up on as kids.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

I want to see women of African descent shine.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

When I used to try and describe what the Khan Academy was, I would tell people that if it were a for-profit, I would be on the cover of 'Forbes.'

I have always considered Amitabh Bachchan God. There is no other word to describe him.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I describe my own music as epic love pop.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.