Quotes About Inspiration

I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.

When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

I'm definitely a note taker.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.