Quotes About Inspiration

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I feel lucky to love what I do. It doesn't feel like working. I do all the projects I do because I like doing them, whether it's a book or a photo shoot. For me, my work and my life are the same.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.