Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

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

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

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

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.

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.