Quotes About Inspiration

I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And when it comes to lyrics, it's an agonizing process.

A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.

We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

That's what I like: to kind of get up and start working right away in the morning.

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

I believe when your ideas are pure and honest, when you give your heart to something, God automatically propels you in the right direction.

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

I'm 62 years old, but I didn't give up on my dreams. I just feel that God heard my cry, and he put the right people in front of me.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

We're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always keep your mind in the right place and always keep your heart in the place of making music that you love.

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

Adam Szalai and Kerem Demirbay always keep an eye on me and make sure I'm doing the right things.

The right time to record is when you're not quite ahead of yourself.

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

When you hear Omarion, when you put it on at the right time on the right night in the right space, you're going to feel something and you're going to be inspired to move.