Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that 'This Can't Be Life' Kanye beat.'

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.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

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

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

Drake and Kanye make me want to get better.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.