Quotes About Inspiration

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

Sometimes when you chat about something, a few ideas come up, you go this way or that way in training.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Writing a check is easy. The opportunity for real change happens when there's a person who comes to you with real passion to create a movement.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

I have my parents to keep me in check, a team that loves me, and I have the ability to go out there, dream, and chase it.

Salman Khan is always aware of what I am doing. He is my check point for everything I do, what I should do and what I shouldn't.

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

I cheer for Klopp.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.

There's nothing better than being head cheerleader, let me tell you.

In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first time I saw somebody looping. She sampled her voice and made a song with that, and that just blew my mind.

Every time I'm on the court, every time a fan cheers for me, I just want to go out and make a play for them to cheer even more.

Rick Rubin eats no cheese.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'