"I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably."

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Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Mat Kearney

#Song Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Creating Quotes

“Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.”
“To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.”
“The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.”
“A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.”
“You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage
“Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.”

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