Sofia Richie Quotes

It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

I always listen to music while I draw.

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able to get into that space, nothing else matters, and I'm just a vessel for whatever the message is; I feel like I'm not in control. It's like this organic communication, and I feel like that is the quiet, in a way.

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

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.