JaVale McGee Quotes

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

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.

That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

Being in the studio is my absolute favorite thing.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Music is pretty much all I do.

Making records should be fun.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.