Quotes About Inspiration

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.

I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.

I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church, yes.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

And I've teamed up with a choir from home. They're called the Gori Women's Choir. They're a 23-piece all-female choir, and they've been going since the '70s.

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

You choose the film, and then the film chooses everyone else; a film decides everything on its own.

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

Yes, I am extremely choosy. You decide whether to do a film or not only after you meet and talk to the film-maker. Only someone who thinks out of the box excites me.

Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.