Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

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

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.