An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

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.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.