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.

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.

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

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.