I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty. – Tove Lo
I don’t like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft – that’s too much like work. There’s not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in – being very careful and somewhat technical. – Scott Turow
I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere. – Santigold
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings. – Wislawa Szymborska
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent Van Gogh
One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left. – Trevor Rabin
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. – Stephen Gardiner
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. – Van Morrison
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. – Thomas A. Edison
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. – Tom Wilkinson
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. – Winston Churchill
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration… as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. – Tullian Tchividjian