Humility is actually an act of strength. You have to have a really solid core to expose yourself to the discomfort, and to some degree, the suffering, of not being good at something.

If you're good at everything, you're not groundbreaking at anything.

Companies don't do business with companies. People do business with people.

It's the deal we have to make. It's called vulnerability and risk. We have to take the risk to make ourselves vulnerable. Yes, you might do something for someone else and they may not do something back for you. That's the risk you run.

The feeling of fulfillment comes from doing something for another. The feeling from fulfillment comes from the exertion of time and energy for someone else.

You have to have confidence in yourself and your own ability, before you're willing to help another.

What kind of presence do you want to have in the world?

There is this trade off. The more you document your own life, the more you check in, the more you tweet, the more you post photos of what you did last night. The more you do all this stuff ... In a way, you start to step out of those moments.

I love this feeling of slowly creating something that became more and more beautiful over time.

You need to get rid of the idea that there is such thing as good art and bad art.

Reframe success ... Success is not shared prestige, award or power, it's impact.

Self understanding is so important when it comes to which part of the creative industry you’ll like to go into.

The what-ifs have to come from a point of tension. Otherwise you're not going to have the energy to execute.