Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.