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

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

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

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.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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.

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

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

No great thing is created suddenly.

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.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

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

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.