Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff.
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best – write the story you want to read.
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
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 products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
