Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. – Ron Ben-Israel
Theres a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq… I think theres a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over its time to even out the deck somewhat. – Jerry Nachman
Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, theyre on the positive side of things. Its not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies. – Feist
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. – Fiona Shaw