Quotes About Process

Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.

Life is a process of evolution.

I never liked making albums.

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

The behind-the-scenes kind of process at TV, especially live television - that was super scary, but I think it's made me more comfortable now. If I ever have to go on live TV, I at least remember what it was like when I was 16.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!

I was looking forward to knowing Shah Rukh and get to know how he works, what is his process like and how he is as a person. There are millions like me who dream about working with him some day. His film 'Baazigar' really inspired me.

In the studio, I like to have the music first: I'll sit with the music for like an hour, on loop, and just let it tell me what it feels I should do.

It's just crazy how the Louisiana court system works.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

The economy is like a machine.

Almost everything is like a machine.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.