The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.