Susanna Hoffs Quotes

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes. But the urge to write is something you have to have. A conviction, an ambition to write and never stop until you think, 'This is the best I can do.'

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!