If people are copying you, it’s sad for them because it means they aren’t in touch with their own creative source. But you are. But as long as you keep making good shit and weed out the relationships that aren’t reciprocal, you’ll always have that access. They’re showing you that the best thing about them is you, and that will be sad for them when you’re off making good shit without them.

Muse, critic, inner child. Imagine if these parts of you needed each other. Longed for each other. Advocated and fought for each other instead of against each other. What would that change?