Michael Eklund Quotes

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

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

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

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

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.

I take inspiration from my own experiences and from other people's experiences.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me; my friends; my family; my own feelings; or even things that are happening in the world.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.