What you stop doing is just as important as the things you start doing.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

The best place to begin is always with gratitude.

Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!

You're not going to die. Here's the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you'll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you'll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired...it's not going to kill you. Ask anyone who's been through it.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.