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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

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.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

All art is but imitation of nature.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

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.

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.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

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.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

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

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

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

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

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

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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.

Imagination decides everything.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.