Quotes About Inspiration

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Every dish is very connected to my own experiences. Perhaps I go deeper in the description and feeling in the dish than a male chef would. But it's difficult to say.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

My thing is music, period.

What I do is create images, period.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.