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.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.