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The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.