This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

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.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

The world remains ever the same.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

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

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

My drive is other people’s success.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‚Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.‘ I don’t want to be part of that.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.