Muses

Statement: My best friends are my soul food.

Opposite view: Friends are over-rated as creative muses. The traditional muse of the 20th Century was an attractive, usually single, woman who was paid, or not, to inspire the usually male artist. Many male artists fell in love, or lust, with their muses and some muses fell in love with their benefactors. 

My best friends are definitely not attractive young women, they are 60-something men and women who, whilst I love them, are definitely not, in my eyes, kissable.