Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you li….

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library.".

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only c….

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among ….

Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood,….

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you….

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front ….

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first..

Be nice. (The world is a small town.).

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others..

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the produc….

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder..

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past..

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room..