Quotes About Inspiration

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.

To see where I've stolen all my ideas from, look no further than the comics at your local comic shop!

I took five hit records to Memphis, and '634-5789' was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I've never understood how someone could just steal your song like that.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

I've stolen licks from just about every person that ever picked up a guitar. We all borrow from one another; it's called legitimate stealing.

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

I write from my stomach.

Cooking fills the stomach, and music fills the mind.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.