Quotes About Inspiration

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid - his music and 'Hee Haw' made me perk my ears up and made me say, 'What is this? I want to hear more of that.' He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.