We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

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.

A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.