I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.