Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

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.

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

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.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.