Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.