You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.