You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.