Quotes About Inspiration

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.