Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Art is the proper task of life.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

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.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

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

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.