Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I'm a studio rat.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

Juggling your personal life, your social life, and your work is hard, especially when you're in school like I am, but I think it's worth it.

It's always agonising to separate my life as an actress and personal life. Just because I'm happy with my acting life doesn't mean I'm happy with my personal life. I'm always making an effort to balance between the two.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

Before, I used to just make songs all day and now, with so much business and other things that I have in my personal life, I don't have time to sit around and make songs like I used to. I wish I did. I wish I could practice on my craft all day and just be in the studio like I feel Lil Wayne does.

It's really important that I have a personal life.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

It's important to have a life outside the band.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.