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

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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 invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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.

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.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.