Quotes About Inspiration

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

It doesn't bother me to have people looking up to me, because I don't think I say anything too crazy or over the top where people can't look at me as a role model.

If I bother about the expectations how will I make a film?

We watch Hrithik Roshan perform, he's brilliant and good looking. I have never let that bother me.

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

If you could bottle that special feeling you sometimes get in a dressing room just before a match, you'd be a billionaire.

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

Outside of Bounce, I listen to Beyonce, Sia, Rihanna.