Deep-rooted cultural ideas about productivity, success, and gender roles are holding us back.

Now I am older than Keats was when he died and I live in a room whose walls somebody else painted this very soothing shade of taupe and I’m still the same age as Lena Dunham but I’m not jealous of her anymore. I am making a living doing a different thing that I love and I feel as lucky as she has probably at some point felt, and I catch myself whenever I start buying into a worldview that mandates I see anyone a little bit like me as my competition. So good luck to her. May she make the space expand.

On the universal love for Jay-Z and his history as an authentic brand.

This is absolutely 100% true and if you don't realize it, you are dumb.