Quotes About Inspiration

I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

I'm a massive fan of Ben Folds, I have been for ages.

There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing.

Ben believed in me when I was a little boy, when no one else was around, so it's why I wear his name on my trunks every time I step in the ring. I want the world to know they're watching a Ben Getty fighter.

Ben Getty knew boxing. Even if I didn't believe in myself... he knew what he was talking about. For him to believe means I should believe it, too.

Ben Cartwright was patterned after my father, who never saw 'Bonanza.' In that sense, my father will live for a long time.

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.

Girls, in particular, benefit from sports.

So my first role was when I was five years old. I had one scene with my mom in a Bengali film called 'Gajamukta.' After that, I thought I'd become Madhuri Dixit.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

I grew up in East Berlin, in a family of artists.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

Listen - in life, if you can go into work and spend the day with Halle Berry, you're doing alright.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

You can't not be star-struck by Mary Berry.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.