Artistic Pause 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've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I've ever made.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.