I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll...

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't...

Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning,...

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't...

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than...

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do...

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong....

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give...

Each season I strive to design a forward - thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.