Quotes About Motivation

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

There is no art without intention.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.