1. Understand that  creation is just re-organization, and vice-versa.
2. Understand that in order for something to be creative and unique, it only has to be creative & unique to the creator; any reaction besides the creator’s is relative.
3. Understand that the raw is more honest than the refined.
4. Understand that every piece you produce- no matter how varied in structure, media, content, or form- reflects the same idea; many aspects of the same idea, but it is the same idea.
5. Simply, daydream. And not just the good stuff.