Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.
Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
Be nice. (The world is a small town.)
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.