Speaking about your work and writing about it in clear language helps to clarify your intentions and communicate them to others.

If your work is to have integrity, it must come from the inside. Everything you need to be creative you've probably possessed since you were ten years old. Just show up, regardless of the results, and scream down the well with every inch of your lungs. That’s how you get a career.

Art comes from self-delusion.If you don’t believe, then how can you convince others? Don’t try to be great, just be good. Any clown can hit one out of the park once in a while, but it’s much harder to be good consistently.

But purpose—purpose is a white-hot fire inside of you, a self-delusion that keeps you coming back into the room to work decade after decade, knowing that you'll never get it right, but that the next day might get you a little bit closer...

‘All the talent in the world is meaningless without an atomic work ethic.’

‘Life’s only commodity is time. How will you spend yours?’

‘All grumbling is tantamount to “Oh, why is a lily not an oak?”’

Purpose is way more powerful than inspiration.

The best way to find your voice is to make a lot of work and then destroy it.