"Where do you get your ideas?" is actually a very good question.

It's a longstanding joke among successful creatives that "where do you get your ideas?" is the dumbest question a person can ask them. But I would argue that the reason why creatives don't like the question isn't because it's "dumb" (which it isn't) but because it's incredibly difficult to answer. When someone asks a successful creative person where they get their ideas, they are asking specifically where they are getting their GOOD ideas that lead to successful works. And often, even very successful creative people have a decent track record of bad ideas that didn't work and led to works that bombed. Because they don't KNOW where they get their good ideas. Because they often have a hard time telling the difference between a good idea and a bad one. And they have a hard time telling the difference because nobody spends much time really analyzing what the good ideas are and where they come from. Because nobody takes the question "Where you do you get your ideas?" seriously. Yes, creative ideas are very easy to come by, but good ideas are as rare as the most successful creatives, and I think it's worth really exploring the question.