Quotes About Inspiration

So after an album and tour are over I take 6 months to a year to do other things. Once I went to University and studied screen writing. Another time I learned to dance.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.