Quotes About Inspiration

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

I want to do rock operas.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.

I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

When you're filming, you're blind. But if you follow what really moves you, then you operate from a place of hope: maybe that the story you're telling will resonate with whatever the world will have become when the film is ready to be born.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.