Cindy Sherman Quotes

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.

I can't work without music.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can't - I don't know how to work late.

My place in London is very small, so a piano would take up a third of the room. I leave home in the morning when I'm there and go to my studio. I close the door, and it's soundproof. There's no phone or TV or computer, and I can work uninterruptedly. That has been a huge advantage over the years.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.