El-P Quotes

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

Music is pretty much all I do.