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I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.