Grace Jones Quotes

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I need complete silence when I write.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I never listen to music when I write.

I tune everything out.

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.