Quotes About Inspiration

Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

You were born to live the best of being.

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I'm passionate about, that's when it came to me.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.