Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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

I like to be creative.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

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

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

I’ll stay in Memphis.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

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

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