Quotes About Inspiration

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.