The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

People will surprise you. Several times a week I see or hear about something creative our associates have done. It's inspiring to see their ingenuity and pace.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

I don't want to keep playing the same formula over and over again, otherwise you just go insane. I don't want to become stale. I want to be creative.