Quotes About Inspiration

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

We're moved by our fans. We feel their sadness and happiness. We're deeply connected.

As I have said many times - no 1 loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can't really love yourself, you can't love anything you do!

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

I'm not a saint - I'm not saying that - but I was lucky enough to work with people who believed in me, and I want to honor that until the day I die. I'm still learning and still evolving, though.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

I want to feel creative when I'm working. I don't want to just work for the sake of working.

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if I've got something to say, I'll say it the right way.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour.

I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.