The imagination needs moodling, --long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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.

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.

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.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

If you had a jetpack you'd be like I have the shittiest jetpack. Who's your service provider on your jetpack? Did they make the new one? I hate this thing.

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.