Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

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.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

I hate the idea of genres.

Never mistake motion for action.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I am the freest author in the world.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I wanted to write.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.