“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”

“Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care… be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!”

“We've got so many ideas for songs and good riffs, and the more we work, the more we tour, we're getting more ideas, just more. It's just gonna get better and better. I can't see an end to it. It's like infinity rock and roll.”

“So the goal isn’t to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.”

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

“This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along—you want there to be some room for it to fit in.”

“If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.”

“Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.”

“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”

“Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.”
sic cum inferiore vivas quemadmodum tecum superiorem velis vivere.