Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.

Fear manifested invites danger.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.