Quotes About Inspiration

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

Adversity is a stimulus.

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.

Messi is a good stimulus for Cristiano.

The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I used to watch old clips of Muhammad Ali, where he'd be talking the jive during interviews, you know, 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, man, rumble.'

Shout out to Sting: that's the G.O.A.T. right there. The goat. Greatest of all time.

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

Sting is a father figure to us all.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

I was into the Police. I dyed my hair white-blond and wanted to be Sting.

People always send me notes saying they'd love to be a speaker, but they could 'never speak as well as you do!' I'm like, 'Girl, of course you won't. You're just starting out... everyone stinks when they start!'

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

With my fashion knowledge, I do stitch things randomly at times.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.