The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

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.

People want to feel hopeful.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

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.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

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

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Originality is really important.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.