Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

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.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Never regret what you don’t write.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

All of my writing is God-given.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Coffee is a language in itself.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

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.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I never played with anything like toys.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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.

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

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

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.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

War is what happens when language fails.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.