Quotes About Inspiration

By the time I was 13, I was very interested in rocketry.

By the time I was a teenager I'd decided what my son's name would be - River.

I really love Death Cab.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.

I love watching other women when I'm sitting at a cafe.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.

I want to leave Cal with a winning legacy.

Coach Cal really makes you look good.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

California is always in my mind.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.

My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.