Quotes About Inspiration

I was a fan of Belle and Sebastian. I didn't really know a lot of their music - I only knew the kind of bigger songs because I had a friend, when I was younger, who was really into them. But I have always really respected Belle and Sebastian for what they are, what they do. Yeah, they're just great.

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

People respond to any good you can do in music.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!

I just respond to the stories I'm being asked to tell.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I never ever thought about having my own restaurant.

I don't like to restrict my style. I believe I am a student in the world of design. I love all kinds of design elements and more than that, I love to mix them up.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.

I love what I do and I don't allow language to become a restriction.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted to do something more.