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.

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.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

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?

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Imagination decides everything.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

What is past is prologue.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.