You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.