Quotes About Inspiration

I appreciated Aaliyah's artistry. We'll never have another like her.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

I stay away from the studio too long, I feel like I'm abandoning myself.

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

Abbey Road' was a fantastic record.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would have scared the absolute daylights out of me.

Love is the absolute basis of my career.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

People have asked me, 'Do you consider yourself a trailblazer?' Absolutely not. And the reason I say this is, I am aware of the women who came before me.

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.