People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.