“The great irony for us visionaries is that we try so hard to present an idealized version of ourselves to the world—and, in doing so, we end up blocking ourselves from ever accessing what is truly magical about us.”
“Home is the place where I feel safe and powerful. It’s a place where I get to be fucking weird. I might even sing or dance out of nowhere in my home. I can certainly be honest and vulnerable and goofy in my home. I can be ‘too much’ and ‘not enough’ in my home.”
“Artists, visionaries, have always played with mediation. One foot in the world, and one foot out of it. It’s the only way we can see from a different vantage point. We have to temporarily step out of a moment to be able to see it clearly.”
“We live in a world that is constantly trying to commodify us and make us more palatable. Whether it’s packaging our genius up in easy-to-digest ‘Five Surprising Ways to…’ articles or reducing us to contrived, staged photo shoots, we’re always being told that success comes to those who are easiest to consume.”
“Sometimes, we visionaries are so caught up in looking at what’s right in front of us that we forget who we truly are—visionaries with the capacity to see far out. To see a vision that no one else can see. To connect with something that feels impossible. Implausible. Too far-fetched to ever happen in our lifetime. And yet we pursue it anyway. Because we’re visionaries.”
“But love isn’t about how bright something shines in a single moment. It’s about how much it makes us shine—how much it unlocks our genius—every day.”