M. Ward Inspiration Quotations

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.

When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art that I had never seen or heard of before. I wrote a lot of bad high-school poetry, just like pretty much everyone did, I think, at some point. For me, the inspiration never really stopped.

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.