Quotes About Inspiration

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

I'm not interested in doing work that doesn't captivate me.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.

I don't look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I - personally, I'm not interested in my own past. I'm only interested in today - perhaps tomorrow.

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.

People are forced to become doctors or engineers today. It makes no sense to force children to study something they are not interested in. I believe each one should be encouraged to follow their dreams.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.