There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.