Washed Out Quotes

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I like being at home and cooking.

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

I hardly ever go out when I'm home.

I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.

The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

I can write in my living room with my wife and kid around.

I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

In the beginning, I was a stay-at-home dad. So I could actually focus on being a rapper. I could write. I could come up with ideas.

I don't really sit when I'm at home.

If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I'm done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.

Typically, I spend a lot of time - mostly in the morning - kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I'm lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another.

Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.