all ideas are good ideas

Matt's been making about 50 songs a day for the past 12 years, but most of those songs barely get any streams. He's written a book, produced short films, all of which have been seen by maybe a few hundred people total. But when you add up the impressions of his entire 20,000-song body of work, it starts to make sense why he makes that much money.

The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your... See more

Ideas are all around. The problem is, most people don't act on them. If you always reject your own ideas for not being good enough, or being impractical, or think you're not good enough to make them, or that you don't have enough time, or any other reason, it's like skipping brain day at the gym. You have to get what's in your brain out of it.... See more

Riley: "Writing must be hard. I heard this quote that said, 'The only time you're happy as a writer is when you're finished.'"

Aadil: "So true. I feel like everything I write is bad all the way through until it's finally published. But I guess everything is like that. You probably feel the same way for all your projects too."

R: "Hmm. Not really. I'm... See more

Keep a notebook because great ideas disappear as quickly as they appear

"If you reject your own ideas, then the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop. You just do it and do it and do it, and you sort it out later."