To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

Progress means simplifying, not complicating

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.

The Supreme Being longs to hear His Children talk to Him every day at any time.

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.

I sense pure evil. I see a figure all dressed in black, but I can't make out the face.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

Winners never quit, quitters never win.

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.