... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
