Quotes About Inspiration

I grew up listening to a lot of Chief Keef, Lil B, all that.

When the Chicago rap scene came about, I listened to all of the upcoming artists like Lil Durk, Chief Keef and G Herbo.

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

Childhood reading is so important.

Childish Gambino - him and I are the same age, and I really like him.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

Books, the children of the brain.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

If I didn't have Chip Gaines in my life, I'd still be dreaming in my head - but not acting out on any of that, not living it out.

I always want to find something to get you to play with a chip on your shoulder.

I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Making chocolate with RuPaul, it doesn't get much better than that honestly. That's the dream; that's what everyone aspires to do.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit of a voice.

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

I grew up singing in a church choir.