Quotes About Inspiration

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.