Quotes About Inspiration

I'd love to meet Thuli Madonsela, as she is such a powerful and dynamic woman.

The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had a reason to be there, or at least at my music lessons; it just took hold of me.

We have songs that are as good as and even better than 'Dynamite,' so I hope that fans will look forward to it.

I'm dyslexic.

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

People want to believe that you're going to wake up each day and fight to make their lives better.

Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.

I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

As one of the most important global events for our industry, I look forward to Computex each year.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

I am Eagle! I am Eagle!

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

I've always had a different ear for music.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

I do remember the space program from my earliest memories. It's always been with me and something I wanted to be a part of.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.