Quotes About Inspiration

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

Well, we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah, we all shine on C'mon and on and on, on, on

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will be as one.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

As I play the game of life I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night The magic of the music seems to light the way.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

I realized one thing for sure: you can't fuck with your musical DNA without losing something sacred. I was still looking for the sacred. And not even a figure as imposing as Prince could convince me it was there when my heart said it wasn't.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.