What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.