Creative minds have the ability to imagine or invent something new by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.

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

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 started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

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

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.