Quotes About Inspiration

Usually I'll be with my friends and I'll observe everything, and grab emotions from that to write my songs.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

I was only 18 when I made 'A Taste Of Honey' in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

A film based on my life would not be as interesting as my father. I have not lived a life as enriching as my father. I have only been observer to his life, so I think I'm the best person to make a documentary on him.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

I'm obsessed with Lady Gaga. I saw her at the Alexander Wang fashion show after-party, and I think she's the nicest person ever.

There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

I love Amy Winehouse. I'm obsessed with her, I think she's brilliant. And Ed Sheeran is just my all-time fave.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

I was pretty obsessed with 'Saturday Night Live.'

Drama is what I'm really obsessed by. It's what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I'll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during 'School of Comedy'.

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.