Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I can express myself.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

My life is my message.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

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.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

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

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I call architecture frozen music.

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.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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.

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

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Energy begets energy.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

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