Quotes About Inspiration

I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad.

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

Being a husband and a dad is my inspiration.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

My Dad is my hero.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.