I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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.

I really don’t believe in magic.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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.

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

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

I wanted to write.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

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.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

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 alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

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

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

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

All art is quite useless.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.