Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.