John Cleese provides a ten-minute insight into his ideas on creativity:

• We do not know where we get our ideas from (but we do know we don't get them from our laptops).
• Sleeping on an idea can help make its reappearance later so much better.
  Ticking things off and keeping all the balls in the air means you will not have any creative ideas.
• In our frenzied connected world we need to make some time to make some mood for creativity: a tortoise cocoon from which we can check it's safe to come out into a self-created oasis in our lives.
• We need to set aside time and place where interruptions are not allowed - we need to create boundaries of space with a starting time and a finish time, separate from ordinary life, and only then creating a space and place where we can play.
• The problem with some teachers is that they may not know that they are not very creative, and therefore they may not value creativity even if they can recognise it.
  If those in charge are egotistical and wish to claim credit for the work of others, then they shall directly or indirectly discourage others from being creative.

Is he right? What do you think?