You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I’ve been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

I am the wind...I am death.

People don't think I'm big enough to be mean. I don't look big enough, but I am.

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

Fighters have to be optimists.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.