I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

My imagination is a twisted place.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I create stars.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

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.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.