This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

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.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

We’re all dreamers.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Where love is, there God is also.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

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.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.