In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

I don't have anything to do all year. I'm not on tour until September.

When you're doing improv for seven years, you're an old soul of the improv world.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

The thing with me and endorsements is it's harder for me to get endorsements because of the simple fact that I want in.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.