Quotes about Inspiration

Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.

If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

I always write tons of different styles.

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

If you're going to create a character, the tools you use to make that character 'real' are the lives you see around you. The people you listen to on the street. The emotions you see on faces and bodies while you're sitting... in a Starbucks, watching the world go by.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.