Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

The thing about narcissistic people is that they don't think they're being narcissistic.