Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.
When bad news sells, money politics buys.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.
