What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
I just say, “Follow your instincts.” Don’t feel you have to follow the paths of others, because you may not be temperamentally fitted for it. And so you’ll just harm yourself and your cause and others. But just follow your instinct, and don’t ever pretend to be what you’re not.
Academy of Achievement interview, 3 July 2009 source ↗