Quotes About Inspiration

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

My music is a gift from God that saved my life.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

Dance saves lives.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.

I don't need my president to be my savior - I already have one.

Music is a saviour for me.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

I loved playing the saxophone.

As a huge admirer of Vivekananda, I love reading 'Sayings of Vivekananda.'

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven't done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

You must have high ambitions and high ambitions scare small-minded people.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Oh, 'The Thing' is one of my favorite movies of all time. That changed my life because I was like, 'I've got to do this.' Something that scared me that much? It was the first R-rated movie I ever saw, and I was like, 'Dude, I'm changed.'

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.