Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

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

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

You're ready. Start making stuff.

Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.