Quotes About Inspiration

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

I started listening to Sufi music when I was 21.

Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite boxer of all time. He is a middleweight. I saw him and liked him.

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

I sang a song called 'Sugar Time.' That was it. I had the bug.

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.' If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.

Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

I want to go down, like my hero Sugar Ray Robinson, in history.

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

It would be nonsense to try to suggest that somebody who tried to rouse 2,000 people to their feet - which is what I used to do at conference - doesn't have any element of exhibitionism about them.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear.

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

When people suggest we like to 'dream big'... they're absolutely right.

'Heavy Rain' responded to a period of my life, things I strongly believed in, things I wanted to suggest or experiment with. I'm really happy with the overall feedback; the reception was a success.

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.