Quotes about Inspiration

I like Jamal Crawford. He's from Seattle, went to high school there, lived up there. He's fantastic.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I love to paint.

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.