Dev Hynes Quotes

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

My music is like my freedom space.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That's really the thing I'd love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

I never record in front of anybody.