Quotes About Inspiration

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

I have to tell you that we never had any scripts. Jean-Luc never wrote a script in his life. He would write the dialogue that morning before shooting.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.

Diana Ross... she's the bomb.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.