I don't like my music. I'll make a song, and if I do like it, I'll feel it, but after that 10th play, I don't like it no more. Read Summary
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Read Summary
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. Read Summary
I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash. Read Summary
I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey. Read Summary
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Read Summary
I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what. Read Summary
I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. Read Summary
If you can't do it, give up! Read Summary
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. Read Summary
I just am not good at math. Read Summary
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. Read Summary
I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?' Read Summary
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. Read Summary
The thing I fear most is fear. Read Summary
Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.' Read Summary
If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that. Read Summary
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. Read Summary
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better. Read Summary
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. Read Summary