Quotes About Inspiration

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

I get excited by landscape.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

I don't spend all day thinking about football. But a large part of it, yeah.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

It's funny because, growing up, I found inspiration from watching Steffi Graf and Amanda Coetzer, a South African who was in the top 10 for many years. Oh, and then there's someone I've gotten to know over the last few years: Martina Navratilova.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.