Quotes About Inspiration

She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

My mother means the world to me. She is my inspiration and motivating force. She has brought me up perfectly and given me the value and ethics that I still proudly believe in and follow.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

I get to perform in front of millions of people on Saturday nights, I get to choreograph and dance and nothing can bring me down.

We actors feed off the energy of our fans and when we see them enjoying our dance so much, it gives us all the more reason and motivation to perform better.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Mrs Wheeler at Dudley Middle School, where I went from 10 to 13, also saw I had the ability to perform and entertain people.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

I was a dancer, so I always loved watching girls perform and dance and just always looked up to them and their bodies.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.