If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.

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.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'