Ira Glass Quotes

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.