I hate being ignored.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.~Caillen, page 243.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.