Quotes about Inspiration

When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

I love talking to The Rock. He's done the transition from WWE to the mainstream so well.