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.

If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

A word after a word after a word is power.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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 like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

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.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I write all of my own speeches.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Love is only one of many passions.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

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.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer… I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.