Quotes About Inspiration

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

Out of the work comes the work.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.