I’m an inventor.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

All of my writing is God-given.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

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

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

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

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.

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

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.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

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 have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

My imagination is a twisted place.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

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.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!