When I started shopping for sex toys, even the nicest sex toys were still creepy.

Why buy into someone else's imagination?

I only compete with myself. That’s the only competition I need.

Perfectionism is an excuse for being slow.

At a burlesque show it's really not all about you... We want to entertain you, but we also want to make you think about stuff. And we do it all through the magic of nudity. People have short attention spans, you know?

The idea of it was [enticing], while in reality, everybody was a little bit floppier than you expect.

Krispy Kreme donuts are my favorite and I was eating one and thought, 'Man, this is going to mess up my lipstick.' And my friend said to me, 'You know that's kind of like sex; you're willing to do it even though it'll mess up your lipstick.'

Working in an in-house design firm is different than working in an agency because you have to embrace your one and only client, which doesn't go away.

There are a million touch points and our job is to keep our branding consistent across all of the platforms.

Life is an improvisation.

As creatives, we invest more into the things that we create for other people than we do in our own lives.

I believe firmly that everyone, all of us, are going to end up somewhere. Very few of us will end up there on purpose.

If you don't know what your truth is and you're not aligning your life to that truth every day, there's no telling where your story could take you.

Life as we know it is the story that we tell each and every single day, as we reveal our most important truths to the people who matter most to us.

Why don't we start trusting our clients as much as we wish they trusted us?

None of us know what we're doing.

We search for hidden truths and try to communicate those truths through story.

Play is the best way to learn new skills.

'Play' within a framework for exploration with rules and with an approach means you can genuinely discover new things and build them into something specific.

People in the wider world are becoming more design literate. They're understanding the rules of design. They're expecting information to be designed.

All I know is, I want to communicate meaning in this world, and I'm going to figure it out as I go.

Have the bravery to find those people, put yourself out there, and try to create work with them.

Putting your money where your mouth is; if you got an idea, or you got something that you want to make, just make it! Find the people around you to get together and to create that idea.

I think, most importantly, it's about doing stuff instead of wishing you had done stuff.

Sometimes bravery, in the creative space, means letting go of a little bit of control.