‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

Hope is a waking dream.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

If you ever see young artists, and they’re not sounding good, they sound good. They’re good singers. They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t sound good. It’s their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he’s or she’s screwing up or not hitting those notes, it’s not because she can’t hit it or she can’t sing; he or she is scared.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

My drive is other people’s success.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.