Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

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.

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

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.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.