Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
They say comfort kills creativity and you have to suffer for your art. True. But here’s the real truth: you’ve suffered enough.
We all carry the darkness—bad childhoods, regrets, mistakes, shame, all the stuff we wish we could redo. You can’t change any of it.
But you can paint over it.
You can turn that underpainting—the dirt, the trauma, the stuff you hide—into light.
It’s all still in you. So use it.============================================================
David Choe is an American artist, musician, and former podcast host from Los Angeles. He has produced his own talk show called The Choe Show on FX Networks, and has appeared on various other shows such a The Joe Rogan Experience, the Rich Roll podcast, and Tiger Belly.
#davidchoe #davidchoepodcast #thechoeshow
They say comfort kills creativity and you have to suffer for your art. True. But here’s the real truth: you’ve suffered enough.
We all carry the darkness—bad childhoods, regrets, mistakes, shame, all the stuff we wish we could redo. You can’t change any of it.
But you can paint over it.
You can turn that underpainting—the dirt, the trauma, the stuff you hide—into light.
It’s all still in you. So use it.============================================================
David Choe is an American artist, musician, and former podcast host from Los Angeles. He has produced his own talk show called The Choe Show on FX Networks, and has appeared on various other shows such a The Joe Rogan Experience, the Rich Roll podcast, and Tiger Belly.
#davidchoe #davidchoepodcast #thechoeshow
