If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't compare yourself to others.

Stop giving a s— what other people think of you. We make decisions too often based on that…When we start to live for ourselves, and be a little bit more selfish, I think we’ll lead more fulfilling lives. So I think what we need to do, is stare at ourselves in the mirror a little bit longer, and really own who we are and not try to be what we think others want us to be.

Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Stop comparing yourself to everyone else around you.

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.