If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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