Robert Gober Quotes

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

All my work comes out of my life.

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

When I was working on 'Everyday Living,' I was going through a breakup.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I write chronologically in my life, so whatever's going on, I write about it. Usually, that's when I feel the most cohesive body of work is formed. I got to live this crazy life, I got to write about it, and now I've got this record that I'm really proud of, too. It's not done, but when I put it out, it's gonna be good.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.