The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

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.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

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.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I can express myself.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

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

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

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

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.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

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

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