On creating as a means of survival

On developing a relationship between creation and honesty

On being comfortable with failure

On understanding yourself through your work

On learning to let go

On feeling alone and not understood by the masses

On resilience, growing and pushing yourself when you are about to give up

On doing nothing and how it helps your brain visit things it would never get the chance if you would be doing something

On feeling overwhelmed

On accepting that mess is part of creation

On practice and attention

On doing what others expect you to do

On the frustration of revisiting your work over and over

On time and the fear of running out of it

On how creating is connecting

On the turbulent relationship with your work

On never turning your creative antena off

On developing a relationship with thought

On doing justice to your mind

On asking if you can say something

On creativity as communication

On originality

On the interplay between seriousness and playfulness

On creation as a transfer of energy (artist to audience audience to artist and so on)

On taste as a creative compass

On divorcing cynicism and creativity

On taking risks