Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

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

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.