I’ll continue to stress this: there’s a big difference in making art because you love to make it, and making art because it’s nine o’clock and the show must start. Committing...

Identity Is a Lagging IndicatorWhy results come later There is a particular kind of impatience that lives in public creatives. I know it well. It’s the quiet glance at the calendar after a week of...

You Don’t Rise to the OccasionYou fall to your systems There’s a quiet myth that lives in the corners of our craft. It tells us that when the moment comes, when the lights rise, when the audience...

With these hands I pray for strength, hope, faith and Love. Everything these hands do is a prayer. I do my best to offer more than I ask. Violent us. US. When someone says Peace and Honest discussion...

You Don’t Need Variety YetThe myth of constant change There’s a moment, usually early, when a thoughtful creative begins to worry they are repeating themselves. The same themes surface. The same...

I bought into the big lie. The one that looks for the ‘new and shiny’. Whispered into my brain that the audience will get tired of the old material. Then a wise mentor told me that the...

Ritual Over MotivationDesigning your daily rhythm Motivation is a charming liar. It arrives dressed in energy, in possibility, in the feeling that today might finally be the day everything clicks. And...

Boring Is a SkillEnduring the plateau There is a stretch of the work that no one talks about for very long. Not because it is secret, but because it is difficult to make interesting. It does not...

The Power of Doing It AgainRemoving novelty addiction There is a particular kind of restlessness that lives in creative people. It disguises itself as curiosity, sometimes even as ambition, but if you...