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

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.

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.

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

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

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