Quotes About Inspiration

I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.

If it hadn't been for Paul Bearer, there would not have been a Kane. For that, I'm forever grateful.

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting to classify one of their players as the franchise player. So that was the whole idea, that 'The Franchise' was the franchise player for ECW.

I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.

Maybe I could manage someone and be the female Paul Heyman.

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

You can't look past the captain Eoin Morgan, as well as Trevor Bayliss and Paul Farbrace for giving guys the freedom to play without fear and not to worry about consequences.

Well, Sean Paul we've always wanted to work with.

In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

I met Paul Brown, and I will never forget it.

I grew up on Julia Child, Paul Prudhomme, Sara Moulton - and obviously, Emeril's first show had a huge impact on my life.

Les Paul was my godfather.

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.

I go to matches to watch players who entertain. I still watch old footage of Paul Gascoigne.

I always looked up to Paul Scholes, Giggsy, Wazza and Carras. When I got the chance to train with them you saw how professional they were every day and how hard they work.

Paul had the biggest heart in the world and he was such a good example.

I've never rapped. I karaoke-d 'Paul Revere' from Beastie Boys when I was 15, 14 years old, but that's it.

Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical, more mundane. What I achieve with him is different to any thing I could ever hope to achieve with any one else.

I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'

My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.