Andrew W.K. Quotes

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

My work is my work and my life is my life.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

All my work comes out of my life.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

My faith is a huge part of my life. I don't force it into my music, but it's in my experiences, so it comes through. People pick up on what they want to pick up on, but any way strangers connect to a song that I wrote is awesome.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.