Quotes About Inspiration

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I am always locked in my design studio.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.