What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.