Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

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.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

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.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Revolutions go not backward.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

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.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.