Quotes About Inspiration

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

I want to use my celebrity for good.

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

You can't censor people's dreams.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

Music is my balance... center of my life.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.

I decided to put cinema at the centre of my life when I was 13 and going through the biggest crisis of my life: teenagehood.

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

For me, growing up, my main role model was Rio Ferdinand when he was playing with England. He was a centre half. I liked his style of play, and he played with a lot of passion.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.