Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.