If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I have the space and liberty to create.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

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

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

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

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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?

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

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

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I hate the idea of genres.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.