The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.