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Connor Storrie on his advice for struggling artists. VMAN: There's a famous quote from "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill —"Burn the bridges behind you. Then you will be sure of maintaining the frame of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success." Basically, burn every bridge but the bridge to Plan A. CONNOR STORRIE: Right. I will say, though, my one piece of advice-and I see this with certain artists in my personal life—is that you can't show up and be your best artist if your boxes aren't ticked. Meaning if you're struggling financially, if you're struggling health-wise, if you're not prioritizing those things. I think there's a romanticism around being the starving artist, you know? But at the end of the day, yeah—make sacrifices for your art and for the life you want to live. But you can't show up as an actor, a singer-songwriter, whatever, if you're not taking care of yourself. For me, there were periods where | struggled because I didn't want to work, so l worked a lot less in order to have the energy to really focus on my art. But | think you can only really be successful if you're taking care of what you need to take care of, so you can fully show up. So don't try not have a job just so you can focus more on your art, because if you're starving yourself, you don't have the energy, the wherewithal, or the mental capacity to tackle it. So have a game plan. Take care of your bills, make good decisions, and then in your free time, just tackle it-tackle what you to want to do. If you want to be an actor, be in class, be creating something, be writing something. But be a human being, be an adult, and take care of yourself.