I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?

What makes everything one is the style.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.