I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.
When everyone tells you, 'No, no, no,' your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.
I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.
Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
There is nothing more dangerous than an idea, when it is held by a man who has only one.
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
