I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

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 never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

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.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I can express myself.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

I call architecture frozen music.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.