Eddie Van Halen Quotes

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.