Quotes About Inspiration

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

We are fortunate to attract an energy executive as strong as Banmali Agrawala.

I'm an executive producer.

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

Mani Shanker is brilliant. And working with brilliant people is exhilarating.

I don't exist without writing.

When I was a bit younger, I loved Rufus Wainwright - just the fact that he existed.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

Expect more than others think possible.

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

My only expectation, which I tell my kids very, very often, is that they follow their heart.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I never do any song with any expectation.