The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

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

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Genius, when young, is divine.

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I’m not a futurist.

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.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

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

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

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

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

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.

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

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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 think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

In art the best is good enough.

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.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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.