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

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Love can do much, but duty more.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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.

I like to work.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Single life is so overrated.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I can dance to just about anything.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

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

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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