Quotes About Inspiration

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.