I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

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.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.