Phoebe Cates Quotes

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.

I'm constantly being approached by people who say, 'You've introduced me to a new world that I didn't even know I liked.' Even if I didn't set out to do that, I'm very proud that I have.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.