Quotes About Focus

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

I don't give a damn about my record.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

I may be on set acting, I may be in the studio recording, I might be teaching dance class all in the same day - so how can I manage all of those needs, prepare for all of those things, and still grow and train in all of them? The best you can do is, when you're focusing on one, be there and be present.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.

I do not chase after the records.