It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Go have fun and make money

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

I don’t really like organizations where people are “deemed” things.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.