Originality is really important.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

My imagination is a twisted place.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

We must use time creatively.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

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.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

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.

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.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

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.