Lorne Balfe Quotes

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.

It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.