I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Don’t complain about difficult situations. They contain in them the motivation to succeed.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.