Quotes About Inspiration

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

I'm mad creative for acting.

Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

I want to be like Madame de Stael.

John Madden is just special.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.