By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

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

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Genius, when young, is divine.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

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

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I like to be creative.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.