“If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.”

“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.”

“Remember that in life, everything that you want is outside of your comfort zone. Because if something is inside your comfort zone, it's either something you already have or something so trivial as to be undesirable: you don't want something you already have. So in order to get what you want but don't yet have, you have no choice but to venture outside of your comfort zone.”

“Sometimes you have to sacrifice something you love, if you don't want to lose everything you have.”

“Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?”

“Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?”