Renewed Inspiration Quotes

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.

When I went to the sets of 'ABCD,' I felt younger. Surrounded by so many young dancers, I, too, became a dancer again.

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write, I said, 'Wow, even as an old woman, I could have a selected book of poems.'

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.

My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the hardships, it fades. 'Pete's Dragon' reawakened that. It rekindled the feeling of the invisible dragon.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

It feels good to be back in the Kannada film industry and I'm overwhelmed by the love of the people here.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.