Quotes About Inspiration

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.

There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

At USC, when I studied film scoring my first year, one of my first friends that I met was Ryan Coogler. He was in the directing program at USC. He became one of my best friends at school.

I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

I grew up being a running back, so the guys I really liked to watch were running backs. I loved watching Reggie Bush at USC. It was unbelievable what he was able to do. Priest Holmes was another.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.