Raine Maida Quotes

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they normally would if they are being told how to think, what to do. I think when people receive information through art, they are more open-minded.

I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Following instructions is overrated.