The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.