At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.