Refreshing Perspective Quotes

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

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

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling by not reading the news.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Sometimes you get too jaded, too seasoned. With Hellyeah, we've been having a lot of fun. From the minute we sat down in the studio, there was a lot of energy.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

I think, and I don't know if it's because of 'Searching for Sugar Man,' but South Africans seem to not have to go with what's popular but what they like, and that's refreshing.

You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.