Quotes About Inspiration

Oakland has always been my muse.

Oakland kids are always the best.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.

I liked bands like Oasis and The Prodigy.

I was a big Oasis fan.

I'm a big, big, big Oasis fan.

Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new audience, as it's a classic.

Be there because Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver America the change we so desperately need.

I've long admired Michelle Obama's devotion to encouraging fitness for children.

President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.