Quotes About Process

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.