The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I can express myself.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I like to be creative.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

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

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

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

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

Where there is love there is life.

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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

We love things we love what they are.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.