Eliot Sumner Quotes

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

I write because I can’t sleep.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

I am an insomniac.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

I am awake a lot of nights.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.