James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

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.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Music is my home.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I usually sing when I'm by myself.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

Music I do just for me.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.