Quotes About Inspiration

We're so blessed to have an amazing catalog.

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

I really didn't have a favorite Major League catcher in college, but I would watch a lot of games. If one was on, I'd try to pick up little things from whomever was catching at that time.

My aim is always catchy songs, or songs with meaning and I want to write music people can relate to, about things anyone could go through, just real, honest music... songs that mean something, songs that are inspired by true life events.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy lyric or a whole situation.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.

I was probably 16 or 17 when 'Core' came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. That blew me away.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

Juan Martin del Potro

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.