Quotes About Inspiration

The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don't have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we've done that for one person, I think we've done our job.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He's a great guy - we vibed out for the day.

I feel like, with makeup, I really picked it up on my own. There's no one really in my family - my grandma is probably the closest - who loves makeup like I do.

I've actually picked up a lot of good habits from just watching film from Demetrious Johnson.

I picked up photography in high school.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.

I was picked by Pradeep Sarkar for a huge campaign called 'Bharat Nirman' and he infused a lot of confidence in me and from thereon my journey started.

No I.D. helped me to just identify certain energies that I might not have really represented yet in the music that he picked up on just in my personality, or in the person he perceived me to be.

What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.

I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

I have noticed that when a girl or guy falls in love, and they call their girlfriend or boyfriend with cute names, then 'Honey Bunny' is one of the most famous ones, so we picked that up and created a song.

I've been a Gunner for life. They play similar football to Barcelona. So ball movement and player movement is important to me in basketball; I think I picked it up from watching those guys.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.