I didn't know if I was in a tragic story, or a heroic one.

No matter where you come from, if you have a positive mindset and you have a passion and you go full-force, something’s going to come out of it.

In life, you’ve got to feel inspired. You’ve got to have hope. You need a reason to live.

I just want to give myself the freedom to create, be scared, and do it anyway — gently.

It's a compassion interaction between my deep self and my fear-based self.

A muse is really anything that sparks your creativity: it can be a person, a place or an object.

Drawing makes you stop and really see what’s in front of you, and that makes your life infinitely richer in so many ways.

Running people with fear doesn’t work and never will. And I think that’s quite positive.

Kitchen is a language.

"Meet people with respect, always. That could be the starting point"

Creativity is an unending and infinite process, and you have to exist in it. When you do that, you start to recognize, ‘I can be creative all the time, anywhere, wherever I go.’

Expect and accept non-closure.

Being blind is not about being able to see, it's about seeing further than you thought possible.

Creating beautiful things from simple yet unexpected materials is in my blood.

Art was a saving grace for my family and I hope to carry on that tradition.

'Gaman' means to endure the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.

I believe—like I really really do believe—that each one of us have something inside, all of us. And the world will miss out if we don't do something about it. Because someone out there needs to see what we need to create.

But the beautiful thing—I think, for this—is that the magic has happened once I stop listening to everybody else and what everything is telling me that I need to do, that I should do, and I start listening to the muse.

It is finding a way—how does your muse speak to you? And try to put yourself more in those situations.

A lot of it comes from somewhere that I have no idea what that is. And we can call it the muse, we can call it inspiration, we can call it our inner voice. But seriously, I feel like there's something else.

I just started filming girls that were friends of friends, and I recorded this audio. I was like, I'm just going to test this microphone. And so I tricked myself with little things like that, like I'm just going to do this little thing. And then things happen.

I remember writing this, "Dear universe: Thank you for sending me so many ideas. Now please send me the time and energy to make them happen."

If you're not on the edge of failure right now, you're probably not trying hard enough.

What is the failure that you are most proud of?

It's important to not define universal standards of failure or success in a diverse culture.