Quotes About Intuition

I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I mean, that's what drew me into writing. It's fun, and sometimes you don't get a great song. Sometimes you do.

I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time.

Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.

Friends are not made, but recognized.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

Anurag Kashyap is someone whose projects I can take without even hearing the story.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

Linebacking is easy. Hike the ball, and I know where to go.

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...

I have a bad feeling about this...