If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

Inertia is the death of creativity

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

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

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.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

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.