I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood. – Ric Ocasek
In ‘A Likely Story,’ I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it. – Rosemary Mahoney
Trump is in the position to be the next president of the United States, given the mood in America today. – Paul Manafort
Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too. – Rihanna
Addiction isn’t about substance – you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. – Susan Cheever
In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes. – Thomas Newman
Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse. – Tom Felton
I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be. – Sinqua Walls
Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I’m getting inspiration from, so it depends – whatever, it’s just my mood. – WizKid
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They’ll do everything except rotate your tires. – Tom Robbins
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. – Thomas Mann
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he’d play it when he was in a bad mood, so you’d hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you’d feel nervous. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone
Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear. – Sonam Kapoor
When I go out or to an event, I’ll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an event I’ll wear camouflage. It depends what kind of mood I’m in. – Si Robertson
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood. – Yaya DaCosta
When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr. – Tim Pratt
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor’s work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels. – William Friedkin
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. – Zane Grey
Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in. – Salar Kamangar
I’m not happy if other people aren’t enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. – Tom Weston-Jones
Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers. – Thom Filicia
Being a Scotsman, I wear a skirt quite a lot, but we’re allowed. I have an incredibly loud Hawaiian shirt that’s pink and a particularly disgusting turquoise, but I just wear it on days when I’m in a strange mood. – Sean Biggerstaff