Quotes about Inspiration

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.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.