Taylor Hicks Quotes

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

Music is your only friend until the end...

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.