The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.