Mod Sun Quotes

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write.

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

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying to write 'She Talks to Angels.'

I probably get most of my inspiration through music.

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Very often the music comes first.