Quotes About Inspiration

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.

For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

For me, it's always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song may lean more heavily on one than the other, but they all have all three pieces.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

To me, Jefferson Pierce represented every side of me. I knew that I would be able to flesh him out.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?