Quotes About Inspiration

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

It was clear in my mind that my belief in God, coupled with the desire to work hard to serve others, meant I was destined to succeed.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

I was destined to make people laugh.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

All the music has been done before except for the 'Eve of Destruction' and the 'Born in the U.S.A.' You keep reshaping - llke it was putty or clay.

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.