Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.