Paul Rodgers Quotes

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

Art helped give me confidence.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.