Quotes About Inspiration

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I like to work spontaneously.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.