Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

Creators almost always go mad.

The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

Man is what he believes – believe in yourself

Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.