Quotes About Inspiration

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.

Music is an escape for me.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

When you come home and dad's making music, sister's making music and my mum is also very musical - you can't escape it.

I found movies to be such a beautiful escape.

Writing is my escapism.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.