Quotes About Inspiration

Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.

My faith is a huge part of my life. I don't force it into my music, but it's in my experiences, so it comes through. People pick up on what they want to pick up on, but any way strangers connect to a song that I wrote is awesome.

I hope fans walk away still feeling like their batteries are charged. I want fans walking away high-fiving strangers.

Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas I was working on, but it was very clear I needed to finish another song ASAP, and that's how 'Perfect Strangers' came about.

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed.

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.'

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Ten rules of thumb are still a lot for anyone to remember, so perhaps I should try to make things simpler. I realize that these suggestions have a common thread—a golden rule, if you like. Be curious.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Suffering is an art.

Music, and moonlight, and love and ro...mance." he sang softly to himself, tapping some computer

Sometimes the best dreams came in the final seconds of sleep.

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.

Sean Etchingham said of them, 'the women in the Dail will show they are the best men in it'.

In Desmond Ryan's inspired phrase, there continued the 'long wrestle between ghosts and realities with all the stored-up spleens of five years flaming through the rhetoric'.

Sure, movies can be a way to hide from life, but shit, sometimes you NEED to hide from life, to see a better life on the screen, to know life can be better than it is, or to see a worse life and realize how good you have it. Movies taught me not to settle for less.

Summoning up the images in my imagination was easy. Getting them out of my head and onto the canvas was harder. The hardest thing. Sometimes, I thought, the impossible thing. Often, I thought, the only worthwhile thing.