Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.