Quotes About Inspiration

The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I've always admired Bruce Lee for his trailblazing efforts opening doors for Asians in entertainment and beyond.

Walking in the opening ceremony and just being part of the Olympics is so special and it's something to cherish forever.

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

Teaching is just something that has come naturally to me. I didn't set out to be a teacher. I wanted to be a Beatle! But there were only four of them, so the job openings were really limited.

I like to create openings.

I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

I openly share music with Drake, especially when it's time for him to have a project.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.