Quotes About Inspiration

Russ Courtnall was my absolute favorite player. Patrick Roy was there, too, of course.

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

And though I was not a Man United fan, and I'm still not, I just was fascinated by Roy Keane.

I want to be a guy the Royals build their team around.

I just work really, really hard every day, and I think that probably rubs off on people.

I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I wouldn't particularly say I liked rugby but it got us playing football.

I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something different to me.

When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

If I can become a runner, anyone can!

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Music runs my life. I can't imagine going a day without it.

Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.

The need for heroes, to admire them, to be inspired by them, runs deep in our cultural and social make-up.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

My fav band is Rush.

I don't like to rush my music.

Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.