A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

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.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

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.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.