I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

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

Imagination decides everything.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

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

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!

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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.