I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.