The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
“I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.”
“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”