The artist in me cries out for design.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

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

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

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.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The art is long, life is short.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

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.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

My imagination is a twisted place.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

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.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.