College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I hate the idea of genres.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Libraries raised me.

I wanted to write.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

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

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I teach children to be winners.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

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

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

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.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.