Quotes About Inspiration

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

Don't be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.