An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.