Quotes About Inspiration

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges..

Do you want to be extraordinary? Do extraordinary things.

Doing what you love is freedom, loving what you do is happiness.

Some kids wanted to be Firemen when they were growing up . . . I wanted to be a Fire Truck!

Something is wrong if they don't bring out the best in you.

You don't have to motivate passion, unless you're married.

Amy King is a true bard.

You leave more for your imagination if your eyes are out of focus

For that is the ingrediente segreto, love ... It is the same with all your magic. Always love!

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

College is where I realized that God didn't need seven days to create the earth. He could party for six days, and pull an all-nighter.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

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