I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Imagination rules the world.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.