Quotes About Inspiration

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

With 'Woman Far Walking,' that was as good as it gets and I didn't want to do any more. It was satisfying but really exhausting and I didn't want to go back there any more. It was feeling like a 9-5 job and I didn't feel excited about it.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' when I was a kid. It was kind of like growing up playing a sport, wanting to be drafted by your favorite team.

When I was 8 years old, I watched 'Saturday Night Live,' and I always wanted to be on there and be an entertainer.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

I honestly think our readers are gonna save the world.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don't care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.

Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

Music saved me from a really dark road.

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

Creativity saved me.

I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.

Making music has saved my life.

Art saved my life.

Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life.

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

Basketball saved my life.