Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
Art comes from life, not from the studio
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and the story inside the heart of each actor. Art and life are linked, and expressed through my actors.
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
Not a lot of people get to meet their role model and idol in life, and I've been really lucky that way.
That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
My entire life has been inspired by how my family has made me feel.
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
That's the most important thing is how we reach the WWE Universe and how we inspire people in their life. If I can do that and be given the chance to do it, it's really the best thing we do.
I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.
In my junior year, I saw 'Zorba the Greek' with Anthony Quinn, and I was transported by it. I wanted to live, laugh, travel.
