Lucinda Williams Quotes

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

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

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 don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

The more you reason the less you create.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.