Quotes About Inspiration

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.

I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

There are a lot of great love stories. It's just the best thing. Why wouldn't you write about it? Why wouldn't you want to read about it? But it's hard to write about. It's weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people.

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

Hope is universal.

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.