Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

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.

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.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

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.