Jonathan Anderson Quotes

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

It's hard to get me out of the office.

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.