Theophilus London Quotes

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

It's hard to edit. It's hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we'll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.