I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

All good art is an indiscretion.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

My imagination is a twisted place.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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

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

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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.

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

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

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.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

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

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‚Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.‘ I don’t want to be part of that.

Never regret what you don’t write.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

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

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

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