Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

To have a style is to be stuck.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.