Quotes About Inspiration

While life lasts, I am an evangelist.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

I like 'Firework' because it is very different from our past songs and was inspired by the Latin genre.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

When I was younger, let's face it, Latinos in the league were almost always kickers. But Anthony Munoz was definitely a guy I looked up to.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I got a few laughs and decided I was going to act.

If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it's a win.

MMA has been in U.S. for the past 10 years. I went to Sanjay Dutt and said 'I want to launch this sport.' He said 'I also watch it every night... let's go and do it.'

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I can get really lazy.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.