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.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I’ve wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It’s all I know.

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.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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

‚The New Yorker‘ was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I’d more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions – not much.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

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.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.