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

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Imagination rules the world.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

America is another name for opportunity.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In art the best is good enough.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I’ve never had writer’s block.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

How I love David Bowie.

Art is the proper task of life.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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 immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.