Quotes About Inspiration

God is putting me in a position to affect people.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

I want to make people laugh, but I also want to do things that have a serious impact on people - that affect the way they think about something or help them in some way.

Voicing the role of Minnie has deeply affected me in many ways.

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

I do films that affect me, my family, my friends. I need to be affected by what I am showing.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

All the affection I feel around me helps me to keep working harder.

There are faith-based movies that some people don't consider good, but every time it comes to the scene where someone's life is changed, that still affects me.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.

I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

I love Africa.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

I was working with Prahlad Kakkar's ad agency. Somebody saw me there and 'Shanti' happened.