If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

What happens is people - especially, I think, audiences in the United States - people confront new things a little bit afraid. It's like when you're a kid and your mother puts something on your plate you never ate before. I think that American audiences are very much like that, and when they can accept something new they can accept the next new thing, it's incredible. And what happens is that their expectation of what things should be is elevated, and that's really terrific for us.