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

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

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.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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.

I made all my generals out of mud.

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.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Imagination rules the world.

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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

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.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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.

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

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

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

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.