What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

Gillian Flynn

After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, 'Amethyst Journey' was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations - a response to current issues and the state of our planet.

Alaska

Nature Write Woods

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

Anne Tyler

Art Us Tart

Alanis Morissette - I think she's one of my biggest inspirations.

Anne-Marie

Think Thin T

My favorite style inspirations are between Rihanna and Diana Ross.

Ari Lennox

T Style Rite

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

Avicii

Music Men Love

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Bebe Rexha

T Set Ratio

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Behan

Men Marriage Age

When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.

Bryce Dessner

Music Men Writing

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

Cameron Dallas

You Watching Watch

Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.

Carly Steel

Love Worth Wood

Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice... she's perfect.

Charice Pempengco

Attitude Voice T

I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

Charice Pempengco

Wit Want T

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

Cindy Sheehan

Venezuela T Side

Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

Condola Rashad

Work Wit Whatever

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

Fear Art Water

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

David Lynch

Love Us T

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

Respect Were Us

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

Dennis Lloyd

Music Us Two

One of my earliest inspirations was the 'Allan-a-Dale' character played by Elton Hayes in the 1954 movie 'The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men.' He was a wandering minstrel with his guitar.

Denny Laine

Men Yes Wit

My energy is undoubtedly my two sons Yatra and Linga, and they are my all-time inspirations.

Dhanush

Time Ya Undoubtedly

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Ed Sheeran

Amy Winehouse is one of my biggest inspirations.

Ella Purnell

Love is one of my main inspirations.

Enrique Iglesias

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

Enya

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Erin Morgenstern

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

Ernest Cline

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

Flume

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Frankie Grande

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

G-Dragon

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Gavin Rossdale

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

Genndy Tartakovsky

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

Gillian Flynn

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

Gina Haspel

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

Gloria Estefan

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.

Gretchen Bleiler

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

H. G. Bissinger

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

Hanneli Mustaparta

Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

Hannibal Buress

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

Herschel Walker

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Hill Harper

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

Hunter Hayes

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

Inga Muscio

My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.

J. R. Smith

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

James Cameron

I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.

James Wan

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

Jason Wu

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

Jeremy Lin

I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!

Jess Glynne

We both have different inspirations, style-wise. Lisa really loves Penelope Cruz and that classic gypsy look, whereas I like trashy hot messes and '50s pin-up girls.

Jessica Origliasso