Bonnie Raitt Quotes

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

I always think of myself as an audience first. If I like something, my assumption is that others, too, will like it.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?