Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.