"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we do it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple of years that you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doens’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go throught this. And if you are just starting out or are still in this phase, you have to know that it’s normal, and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish a new piece. It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while. You just gotta fight your way through."