Markus Persson Quotes

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in this studio, I don't need anymore!' We really debate everything - and it's a good debate. That's why the games turn out well: it's not me - it's not this guy - it's the collective. Together, we figure out what we want.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

It's really difficult for me to sit and watch anything that I do because I always think about what's there, and what there could be to make it even better.

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.