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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

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

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Lena Waithe won an Emmy for writing while starring on the Netflix show ‚Master of None,‘ but it might be more accurate to call her a Master of Everything.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

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

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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

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

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I am not a consecutive writer.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.