Quotes About Inspiration

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

I wanted to do what Mel Blanc did, and that was cartoons.

I think our legacy will always be there. My brothers and I have carved a path for all taekwondo players, not just in the U.S.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.

We're lucky as Drag Racers to have an opportunity to touch people's lives and in a lot of cases, change people's lives.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

When I got my deal with Cash Money, it changed my whole life.

Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome.

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

Miss Minutes was inspired a bit by Felix the Cat, and cartoons of that era.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.