Quotes About Inspiration

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.

I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.