Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
You need a big ego to be an artist.
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.