I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

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.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

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 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.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

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

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I can dance to just about anything.

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.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.