Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve.

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.