El-P Quotes

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

I really don't go to any parties.

I don't tend to go out that much.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

If I'm up at 4 in the morning, it's because I'm just coming in.

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

Night shoots are great. They always feel quite mischievous and naughty because you're out working while everyone else is in bed.

I usually work, like, 27 days in a row and then take one off.

I've got a lot of girl mates. Especially when you come to Ibiza and you're an Ibiza DJ, everyone comes out and they want to see you.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

I don't really go out a lot.

I didn't have a traditional college experience. I didn't have a social aspect to it. I was always involved in working and going to school.

I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

I don't go out at night.

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!