Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

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.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.