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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

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.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

I've kind of done everything late.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I'm collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."