Quotes About Inspiration

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

I don't write for a particular audience.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.