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

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.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.