Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

Failure is success training.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.