Lou Barlow Quotes

People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

I'm always working on music.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

I been doing music my whole life.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.