I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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.

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.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

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

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.