Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

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

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

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

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Write the book you want to read