Tom DeLonge Quotes

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

Art is my life and my life is art.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

True play is creativity.