A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

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

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

We live in ugly times.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

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

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.