You cannot be creative with people around you.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Action expresses priorities.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The way to know life is to love many things.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

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

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

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

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Music is really driving my whole life.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

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.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

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.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.